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INSTALLATION 


PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  AR 


LIBRARY 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA. 


GIFT    OF 


Class 


THE 


INSTALLATION 


OF 


WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,LH.D.,LL.D. 


AS 


NINTH  PRESIDENT  OF 


WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY 


MIDDLETOWN,  CONNECTICUT 
NOVEMBER  12,  1909 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 

OF 


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CONTENTS 

Page 

INTRODUCTION        ........  i 

PROGRAMME  OF  EXERCISES  OF  INSTALLATION     .         .         .11 

INVOCATION 17 

INDUCTION,  AND  PRESENTATION  OF  CHARTER  AND  SEAL     .  21 

ACCEPTANCE 25 

ADDRESSES  OF  CONGRATULATION: 

PROFESSOR  WILLIAM  NORTH  RICE     .         .         .         .31 

ARTHUR  T.  VANDERBILT  33 

STEPHEN  H.  OLIN 34 

EX-PRESIDENT  BRADFORD  P.  RAYMOND     ...  36 

PRESIDENT  A.  W.  HARRIS  37 

PRESIDENT  M.  W.  STRYKER       .....  40 

PRESIDENT  A.  T.  HADLEY 42 

HON.   ELIHU  ROOT 43 

PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  H.  TAFT          ....  44 

THE  INAUGURAL  ADDRESS      ......  49 

THE  CONFERRING  OF  HONORARY  DEGREES         ...  65 

PROGRAMME  OF  PRESENTATION  OF  DELEGATES.         .         .  71 

ADDRESSES  AT  PRESENTATION  OF  DELEGATES: 

PRESIDENT  W.  H.  P.  FAUNCE          ....  77 

HON.   ELMER  E.   BROWN         .....  80 

SPEECHES  AT  THE  DINNER: 

PROFESSOR  C.  T.  WINCHESTER,  TOASTMASTER     .         .  87 

PRESIDENT  M.  H.  BUCKHAM 89 

PRESIDENT  R.  W.  COOPER 91 

PROFESSOR  A.  H.  THORNDIKE          ....  93 

CHANCELLOR  J.  H.  KIRKLAND          ....  96 

PRESIDENT  H.  A.  GARFIELD     .....  98 

SPEECH  OF  VICE-PRESIDENT  J.  S.  SHERMAN     .         .         .100 

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APPENDIX  :  page 

FORMS  OF  INVITATION,  ETC.    .....     103 

CIRCULARS,   ETC 109 

DINNER  MENU       .         .         .         .         .         .         .119 

LIST  OF   DELEGATES         .         .         .         .         .         .125 

SPECIALLY   INVITED  GUESTS     .....     132 

ALUMNI  PRESENT   .......     137 

TRUSTEES  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY         .         .         .         .147 

FACULTY  OF   THE   UNIVERSITY        .         .         .         .152 


INTRODUCTION 


introduction 

BRADFORD  P.  RAYMOND,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  resigned  the  presi- 
dency of  Wesleyan  University  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Trustees  in  June,  1907,  the  resignation  to  take  effect  at  the  close 
of  the  next  college  year.  It  was  not,  however,  found  practicable 
to  elect  a  President  until  November  13,  1908.  At  that  time  the 
Trustees  elected  as  President  of  Wesleyan  University  William 
Arnold  Shanklin,  D.D.,  L.H.D.,  LL.D.,  who  was  then  President  of 
Upper  Iowa  University.  Owing  to  his  engagement  in  Upper  Iowa 
University,  the  President-elect  was  unable  to  enter  upon  his  duties 
until  the  close  of  Commencement  week  in  1909.  During  the  inter- 
regnum, Professor  William  North  Rice,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  served 
as  acting  President.  Although  President  Shanklin  entered  upon 
the  responsibilities  of  the  office  at  the  beginning  of  the  summer 
vacation  in  1909,  it  was  decided  to  postpone  the  formal  Installa- 
tion until  the  I2th  of  November. 

At  a  meeting  held  February  26,  1909,  the  Trustees  ordered  a 
joint  committee  of  Trustees  and  Faculty  with  power  to  make  all 
necessary  arrangements  for  the  Installation.  The  Trustees  ap- 
pointed as  their  representatives  on  the  joint  committee  Stephen 
Henry  Olin,  LL.D.,  George  S.  Coleman,  LL.D.,  Frank  Mason 
North,  D.D.,  Azel  W.  Hazen,  D.D.,  and  William  I.  Haven,  D.D. 
The  Faculty  subsequently  appointed  as  their  representatives  on  the 
committee  Professors  Rice,  Winchester,  and  Crawford.  Profes- 
sor Armstrong  was  appointed  marshal  for  the  day,  and  Professors 
Bradley,  Cady,  Fisher,  Howland,  and  Dr  Renshaw  assistant 
marshals.  A  number  of  subcommittees  were  appointed  to  pro- 
vide for  the  multiplicity  of  details  necessary  for  such  a  celebra- 
tion. In  addition  to  the  members  of  the  original  committee  and 
the  marshal  and  his  assistants,  Professors  Conn,  Harrington, 
James,  Nicolson,  Fife,  Hewitt,  Howland,  and  Camp  rendered 
valuable  service  on  various  subcommittees. 

After  it  was  learned  that  President  Taft,  who  is  a  personal 
friend  of  Dr.  Shanklin,  had  promised  to  attend  the  Installation,  it 
was  felt  by  many  of  the  citizens  of  Middletown  that  the  visit  of 

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4       INSTALLATION    OF    PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

the  President  of  the  United  States  should  be  recognized  and  duly 
celebrated  by  the  city.  The  initiative  in  this  movement  on  the  part 
of  the  citizens  was  taken  by  the  Business  Men's  Association. 
Ultimately  a  joint  committee  was  appointed,  in  which  the  Busi- 
ness Men's  Association  was  represented  by  Messrs.  Isaac  Spear, 
John  F.  Convey,  and  Lucius  R.  Hazen,  and  the  City  Council  was 
represented  by  Messrs.  G.  Ellsworth  Meech,  William  J.  Keift, 
and  Walter  P.  Reed.  A  number  of  conferences  between  the 
representatives  of  the  college  and  the  committee  of  citizens  re- 
sulted in  satisfactory  arrangements  for  making  the  day  at  once 
an  academic  and  a  civic  festival.  The  visit  of  a  President  of  the 
United  States  to  Middletown  for  the  second  time  in  the  history 
of  the  town  attracted  many  visitors  from  the  surrounding  country. 
The  cordial  cooperation  of  the  citizens  lent  additional  eclat  to  the 
Installation,  and  the  hospitality  exhibited  by  many  of  them  in 
welcoming  to  their  homes  delegates  from  other  institutions  and 
other  guests  of  the  college  contributed  largely  to  the  solution  of 
the  difficult  problem  of  entertainment. 

Most  of  the  alumni,  delegates,  and  invited  guests  reached  Mid- 
dletown on  the  evening  of  Thursday,  the  nth.  The  initiations 
of  the  various  college  societies  had  been  postponed  from  their 
usual  date,  and  were  held  on  that  evening.  The  presence  of  an 
unusually  large  number  of  Wesleyan  alumni,  and,  in  some  cases, 
the  presence  of  distinguished  guests  from  other  colleges,  made  the 
initiations  of  that  year  a  memorable  event  in  the  history  of  the 
various  societies. 

The  weather  of  Friday,  November  12,  was  ideal.  The  sky  was 
cloudless,  and  the  temperature  unusually  high  for  the  time  of 
year.  At  8:40  A.  M.  President  Taft  arrived  in  his  private  car, 
the  Mayflower,  which  was  attached  to  the  regular  train  from  New 
Haven.  With  him  were  Vice-President  Sherman  and  Senator 
Elihu  Root.  .The  President  was  welcomed  at  the  station  by  a 
delegation  in  which  the  college  was  represented  by  President 
Shanklin  and  Professors  Van  Vleck  and  Rice,  and  Messrs.  S.  H. 
Olin,  G.  S.  Coleman,  and  A.  R.  Crittenden,  of  the  Trustees ;  while 
the  citizens  were  represented  by  Governor  Weeks  (attended  by 
Colonel  Shepard,  Major  Rice,  and  Major  Ullman,  of  his  staff), 
Mayor  Russell,  and  Postmaster  Calef.  The  civic  delegation  repre- 
sented accordingly  the  national,  state,  and  municipal  governments. 
These  gentlemen  met  the  distinguished  guests  in  the  Mayflower 


WESLEYAN   UNIVERSITY  5 

immediately  upon  its  arrival,  and  after  a  brief  interval  escorted 
the  President  and  the  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  to  the 
Middlesex  Theatre,  at  which  the  Installation  service  was  to  be 
held.  The  Second  Regiment  of  the  Connecticut  National  Guard 
and  the  Governor's  Foot  Guard  of  New  Haven  formed  a  military 
escort  for  the  automobiles  of  the  presidential  party.  The  Gov- 
ernor's Foot  Guard  made  the  scene  picturesque  by  their  bfilliant 
uniforms,  in  which  is  retained  substantially  the  uniform  of  the 
British  army  in  the  old  colonial  days,  from  which  the  Governor's 
Foot  Guard  has  maintained  a  continuous  organization.  Various 
civic  societies  were  drawn  up  in  line  on  both  sides  of  Main  Street, 
and  between  these  lines  the  presidential  party  with  its  military 
escort  proceeded  through  Main  Street  to  the  South  Green  and 
countermarched  to  the  Middlesex.  The  whole  length  of  Main 
Street  was  brilliantly  decorated,  and  thronged  by  citizens  and 
visitors. 

The  exercises  of  the  Installation  began  promptly  at  ten  o'clock. 
The  alumni  and  students  were  already  seated  in  the  hall  when  the 
academic  procession  entered  and  proceeded  to  the  stage  in  the 
following  order:  Marshal  Armstrong  and  Assistant  Marshal 
Bradley,  the  local  clergy,  the  Conference  visitors,  the  principals 
of  secondary  schools,  the  Faculty  and  Trustees  of  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, delegates  from  other  institutions  and  other  guests  of  the 
College,  and  last  the  speakers  of  the  day  and  eminent  dignitaries, 
including  the  President  and  the  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States.  Since  each  group  of  the  procession  marched  in  reverse 
order  of  seniority,  the  President  of  the  College  and  the  President 
of  the  United  States  brought  up  the  rear  of  the  procession.  The 
entrance  of  the  two  presidents  was  greeted  with  loud  and  pro- 
longed applause.  At  the  front  of  the  stage,  and  at  the  right  as 
seen  from  the  audience,  was  placed  a  chair  for  President  Ingra- 
ham,  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  At  the  left  President  Taft  occu- 
pied a  chair  once  owned  by  President  Washington,  and  used  by 
him  during  his  residence  in  New  York  after  his  inauguration. 
It  was  lent  to  the  University  for  this  occasion  by  the  Middlesex 
County  Historical  Society.  A  third  chair  between  these  two  was 
vacant  until  after  the  ceremony  of  induction,  when  it  was  occu- 
pied by  President  Shanklin.  Behind  the  three  presidents  were 
ranged  the  other  members  of  the  academic  procession. 

In  the  body  of  the  house  the  floor  was  reserved  for  alumni,  the 


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boxes  and  the  balcony  for  ladies  and  other  invited  guests,  while 
the  upper  gallery  was  filled  with  undergraduates,  whose  enthusi- 
astic cheering  was  an  impressive  feature  of  the  occasion.  The 
members  of  the  senior  class  wore  academic  costume. 

The  exercises  opened  with  the  singing  of  Faber's  noble  hymn, 
"Faith  of  Our  Fathers."  Professor  Harrington  led,  and  the  audi- 
ence joined  heartily.  An  impressive  invocation  was  uttered  by 
Bishop  William  Burt  of  the  class  of  1879.  The  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  Henry  Cruise  Murphy  Ingraham,  LL.D.,  then 
inducted  President  Shanklin  into  office,  presenting  to  him  the  seal 
of  the  University,  and  a  parchment  roll  containing  a  copy  of  the 
Charter  of  the  University,  certified  by  the  Secretary  of  State  and 
bearing  the  seal  of  the  State.  Assistant  Marshal  Bradley  invested 
the  new  President  with  the  hood  of  a  Doctor  of  Laws  bearing  the 
colors  of  Wesleyan  University.  President  Shanklin  replied  to  the 
address  of  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  with  a  few 
earnest  and  inspiring  words,  in  which  he  signified  his  acceptance 
of  the  high  trust  committed  to  him.  Then  the  other  speakers 
came  forward  in  order,  according  to  the  program,  without  any 
formal  introduction.  Addresses  of  welcome  and  congratulation 
were  given  by  Professor  Rice  on  behalf  of  the  Faculty ;  by  Arthur 
T.  Vanderbilt,  of  the  senior  class,  on  behalf  of  the  undergraduates ; 
and  by  Stephen  Henry  Olin,  LL.D.,  of  the  class  of  1866,  on  behalf 
of  the  alumni.  Then  came  other  addresses  of  welcome,  from  ex- 
President  Raymond,  the  latest  of  President  Shanklin's  predeces- 
sors in  the  office;  from  President  Harris,  of  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity, representing  the  colleges  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church ;  from  President  Stryker,  of  Hamilton  College,  the  Alma 
Mater  of  President  Shanklin,  and  the  Alma  Mater  also  of  Augus- 
tus William  Smith,  who  was  President  of  Wesleyan  University 
from  1852  to  1857;  and  from  President  Hadley,  of  Yale  Uni- 
versity, representing  the  colleges  of  New  England,  and  bringing 
a  greeting,  as  expressed  in  his  own  cordial  words,  "from  those 
who  are  to  be  your  nearest  neighbors,  and,  I  hope,  your  closest 
associates."  After  orchestral  music  came  addresses  by  Senator 
Root  and  President  Taft.  After  another  selection  by  the  orchestra 
came  the  inaugural  address  of  President  Shanklin. 

Honorary  degrees  were  then  conferred  upon  a  number  of  the 
distinguished  guests  who  were  present.  Professor  Crawford  pre- 
sented to  President  Shanklin  the  candidates  for  the  degrees  of 


WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY  7 

Doctor  of  Divinity  and  Doctor  of  Humane  Letters,  and  Professor 
Winchester  the  candidates  for  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  The 
whole  audience  stood  up  as  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was 
conferred  upon  President  Taft,  and  the  applause  which  followed 
was  loud  and  long.  The  exercises  of  the  morning  closed  with  the 
benediction,  pronounced  by  the  Right  Rev.  Chauncey  Bunce 
Brewster,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut,  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church. 

The  delegates  from  other  colleges,  invited  guests,  alumni,  Trus- 
tees, and  Faculty  assembled  in  the  basement  of  Fisk  Hall  at  one- 
thirty  for  an  informal  buffet  luncheon,  which  was  served  to  about 
six  hundred  and  fifty  people.  President  Taft  and  a  few  other 
special  guests,  including  most  of  the  speakers  of  the  morning, 
were  entertained  at  a  luncheon  at  President  Shanklin's  house. 
On  his  way  from  the  Middlesex  to  President  Shanklin's  house, 
President  Taft  found  opportunity  to  spend  a  few  minutes  at  the 
Chapter  House  of  the  Psi  Upsilon  Fraternity,  of  which  he  is  a 
member. 

At  the  close  of  the  luncheon  the  delegates  from  other  institu- 
tions and  the  Faculty  of  the  University  resumed  academic  costume 
for  the  exercises  at  the  gymnasium.  A  wide  platform,  carpeted 
with  the  colors  of  the  University,  had  been  erected  at  the  west  end 
of  the  building.  Here  sat  in  two  rows  the  Wesleyan  Faculty. 
President  Shanklin  occupied  a  seat  at  the  right  of  the  platform, 
and  President  Taft  sat  at  the  left  in  the  same  chair  that  he  had 
used  at  the  Middlesex.  Soon  after  three  o'clock  the  exercises 
opened  with  brief  speeches  by  President  Faunce,  of  Brown  Uni- 
versity, and  the  Hon.  Elmer  E.  Brown,  Commissioner  of  Educa- 
tion of  the  United  States.  The  Marshal  of  the  day,  Professor 
Armstrong,  then  called  the  roll  of  delegates,  who  ascended  the 
platform  in  response  to  their  names,  and  were  presented  to  Presi- 
dent Shanklin  and  President  Taft.  A  specially  interesting  feature 
of  this  service  was  the  presentation,  as  the  representative  of  Yale 
University,  of  William  Howard  Taft,  LL.D.,  Member  of  the  Cor- 
poration. President  Hadley  had  been  compelled  to  leave  at  the 
close  of  the  morning  exercises,  and  President  Taft  expressed  most 
gracefully  his  high  appreciation  of  the  function  of  the  colleges  in 
the  life  of  the  nation  by  appearing  as  the  official  representative  of 
Yale  University. 

This  ceremony  was  witnessed  by  alumni  and  invited  guests, 


8       INSTALLATION    OF    PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

in  addition  to  the  Trustees  and  Faculty  of  the  University 
and  their  wives.  Twenty  seniors  in  academic  costume  served  effi- 
ciently as  ushers.  Congratulatory  addresses,  some  of  which  were 
presented  at  this  time,  were  sent  by  the  following  institutions: 
The  United  States  Bureau  of  Education,  Harvard  University, 
Columbia  University,  New  York  University,  the  Woman's  College 
of  Baltimore,  Victoria  University  of  Toronto,  and  the  University 
of  Chicago. 

Immediately  afterward  many  of  the  Trustees  and  Faculty  pro- 
ceeded to  the  President's  house,  and  were  presented  by  him  to 
Vice-President  Sherman  and  to  President  Taft.  Soon  after  four 
o'clock  the  long  civic  procession,  with  many  bands  and  various 
societies  in  line,  came  along  High  Street  to  escort  President  Taft 
to  the  station,  where  his  car  was  attached  to  the  late  afternoon 
train  for  Hartford.  The  procession,  escorted  by  the  Second  Regi- 
ment of  the  Connecticut  National  Guard,  moved  to  the  station 
through  High,  Washington,  Broad,  Church,  and  Main  streets. 
Although  somewhat  of  daylight  still  lingered,  Main  Street  was 
beautifully  illuminated  by  festoons  of  electric  lights  stretched  at  in- 
tervals across  the  street  along  the  route  of  the  procession.  The 
crowd  was  even  more  dense  and  more  enthusiastic  than  in  the 
morning. 

At  6 130  P.  M.  a  party  of  about  one  hundred  and  sixty  delegates 
and  invited  guests,  Trustees,  and  Faculty,  assembled  for  dinner 
in  the  basement  of  Fisk  Hall.  Grace  was  said  by  Dean  Hart,  of 
the  Berkeley  Divinity  School.  College  songs  sung  by  the  Wes- 
leyan  Glee  Club  added  to  the  pleasure  of  the  occasion.  At  eight- 
fifteen  Professor  Winchester,  as  toastmaster,  gave  a  brief  address, 
and  then  called  upon  President  Buckham,  of  the  University  of 
Vermont,  the  -Nestor  of  New  England  College  Presidents ;  Presi- 
dent Cooper,  of  the  class  of  1890,  the  successor  of  President 
Shanklin  at  Upper  Iowa  University ;  Professor  A.  H.  Thorndike, 
of  the  class  of  1893,  representing  Columbia  University;  Chancel- 
lor Kirkland,  of  Vanderbilt  University;  and  President  Garfield, 
of  Williams  College. 

Even  before  the  conclusion  of  the  banquet  the  reception  at  the 
President's  house  had  commenced.  Over  nine  hundred  people 
were  present.  In  the  course  of  the  evening  Vice-President  Sher- 
man, who  was  to  have  been  the  last  speaker  at  the  banquet,  at 
the  urgent  request  of  many,  spoke  briefly.  At  eleven  o'clock,  by 


WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY  9 

special  invitation  of  President  and  Mrs.  Shanklin,  the  entire  body 
of  students,  who  for  over  an  hour  had  been  singing  in  the 
grounds  outside,  entered  the  house.  After  they  had  been  received, 
a  beautiful  loving  cup  was  presented  to  President  Shanklin  as  a 
token  of  love  and  esteem  from  the  undergraduates,  by  Mr.  Van- 
derbilt,  president  of  the  student  body. 

Thus  closed  the  exercises  of  a  day  which  will  be  memorable  in 
the  history  of  Wesleyan  University  and  of  Middletown.  There 
were  in  attendance  about  six  hundred  alumni,  thirty-seven  Trus- 
tees of  the  University,  about  ninety  delegates — forty  of  them 
Presidents — from  eighty-one  institutions,  and  a  large  number  of 
other  distinguished  guests,  among  whom  were  four  Bishops  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  one  Bishop  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  the  Governor  of  Connecticut  and  five  ex- 
Governors,  and,  as  guests  most  distinguished  even  in  such  a 
company,  the  eminent  junior  Senator  from  New  York,  the  Vice- 
President  and  the  President  of  the  United  States. 


PROGRAMME  OF  THE  EXERCISES 
OF  INSTALLATION 


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OF   THE 

UNIVERSITY    1 


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PROGRAMME 

of  the 

Exercises  of  Installation 

THE   MIDDLESEX,   10   A.   M. 

Music  —  Overture,  "  Rosamunde  "  Schubert 

Introductory  March  (From  Suite  Op.  Hj)  Lacbner 


Hymn 

"  Faith  of  our  Fathers"  F.  W.  Faber 

Faith  of  our  fathers!  living  still, 
In  spite  of  dungeon,  fire,  and  sword  : 

O  how  our  hearts  beat  high  with  joy 
Whene'er  we  hear  that  glorious  word  ! 

Faith  of  our  fathers  !  holy  faith  ! 

We  will  be  true  to  thee  till  death  ! 

Faith  of  our  fathers  !  we  will  love 
Both  friend  and  foe  in  all  our  strife  : 

And  preach  thee,  too,  as  love  knows  how, 
By  kindly  words  and  virtuous  life  : 

Faith  of  our  fathers  !  holy  faith  ! 

We  will  be  true  to  thee  till  death  ! 

Invocation 

By  the  Reverend  Bishop  William  Burt,  D.D., 
Zurich,  Switzerland 

Music  —  Largo  Handei 


The  Induction  and  the  Presentation  of  the 
Charter  and  the  Seal 

Henry    Cruise    Murphy    Ingraham,  LL.D., 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 


The  Acceptance 

The  President  of  the  University 

Addresses  of  Congratulation 

Professor  William  North  Rice,  Ph.D.,  LL.D., 
on  behalf  of  the  Faculty 

Arthur  T.  Vanderbilt,  of  the  Class  of  1 9 1  o, 
on  behalf  of  the  Undergraduates 

Stephen  Henry  Olin,  LL.D.,  of  the  Class  of 
1866,  on  behalf  of  the  Alumni 

Ex-President  Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  D.D., 
LL.D.,  President  of  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity, 1889-1908 


Abram  Winegardner  Harris,   Sc.D.,  LL.D., 
President  of  Northwestern  University 


Melancthon  Woolsey  Stryker,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
President  of  Hamilton  College 


Arthur  Twining  Hadley,  LL.D.,  President 
of  Yale  University 


Music — Overture,  "Mignon"  Thomas 

The  Honorable  Elihu  Root,  LL.D.,  United 
States  Senator  from  the  State  of  New 
York 

William  Howard  Taft,  LL.D.,  the  President 
of  the  United  States 

Music — Introduction  to  Act  III,  "  Lohengrin  "  Wagner 


The  Inaugural  Address 


President  William  Arnold  Shanklin,  L.H.D., 
LL.D. 


The  Conferring  of  Honorary  Degrees 


Benediction 

By  the  Right  Reverend  Chauncey  Bunce 
Brewster,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese 
of  Connecticut,  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church 


Music — Zwei  ungarische  Tanze  Brahms 


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INVOCATION 


inbocatton 

THE  REVEREND  BISHOP  WILLIAM  BURT,  D.D. 
OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1879 

OGOD  our  Father,  and  Father  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus 
Christ,  we  adore  Thee,  we  worship  Thee,  we  give  thanks 
unto  Thee!  We  thank  Thee  for  life  and  all  its  privileges. 
We  thank  Thee  for  the  wonderful  revelation  Thou  hast  given 
to  us  of  Thyself  as  our  Father  through  Thy  created  works, 
through  Thy  word,  spoken  and  written  by  holy  men  who  knew 
Thee  in  sacred  communion,  and  through  the  examples  of  those 
who  have  walked  in  Thy  light ;  but  especially  we  thank  Thee  for 
the  manifestations  of  Thyself  in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord,  whom 
Thou  didst  send  into  the  world  to  be  for  us  the  Way,  the  Truth, 
and  the  Life. 

In  His  name  we  come  into  Thy  presence  to-day  that  we  may 
seek  the  forgiveness  of  our  manifold  sins  and  implore  Thy  bless- 
ing to  rest  upon  us. 

O  merciful  God,  the  Fountain  of  all  goodness,  who  knoweth  the 
innermost  secrets  of  our  hearts,  we  confess  that  we  have  sinned 
against  Thee  and  have  done  that  which  is  evil  in  Thy  sight. 
Cleanse  us,  we  beseech  Thee,  from  all  our  sins,  and  give  us  grace 
and  power  to  put  away  all  that  is  displeasing  to  Thee  and  hurtful 
to  ourselves,  and  help  us  that  hereafter  with  pure  hearts  we  may 
walk  in  Thy  commandments.  Grant  us  here  and  now  while  we 
pray  the  consciousness  of  Thy  presence  and  favor. 

We  thank  Thee  for  the  glorious  history  of  this  our  Alma  Mater, 
for  the  noble  men  whom  Thou  hast  called  to  teach  in  her  halls  and 
govern  her  affairs,  and  for  the  generous  friends  whom  Thou  hast 
inspired  to  provide  for  her  needs.  We  thank  Thee  for  the  present 
equipment  and  the  bright  outlook. 

We  thank  Thee  especially  to-day  for  Thy  servant  called  to  the 
presidency  of  this  institution  of  learning.  We  thank  Thee  for  his 
past  record  and  for  the  hopes  he  inspires  in  us  for  the  future. 
Grant  him,  we  beseech  Thee,  Thy  richest  blessings  in  all  his  plans 

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and  endeavors,  that  the  University  may  meet  the  exigencies  of 
these  and  future  days  even  more  efficiently  than  it  has  done  in  the 
past.  May  Thy  Spirit  so  guide  his  thoughts  and  control  his  will 
that  all  he  does  may  redound  to  Thy  honor  and  praise. 

Be  pleased  also  to  bless  all  the  members  of  the  Faculty,  that 
there  may  be  unity  of  purpose  to  glorify  God  in  holy  service. 

O  God  our  Father,  Fountain  of  all  knowledge,  bless,  we  beseech 
Thee,  not  only  this  University  but  all  institutions  of  learning; 
illuminate  those  that  teach  with  the  light  that  cometh  from  above, 
and  may  all  who  study  be  taught  of  Thee,  so  that  by  the  increase 
of  knowledge  Thy  truth  may  be  confirmed  and  Thy  glory  mani- 
fested in  all  the  earth. 

God  bless  our  country,  Thy  servant  the  President,  the  Vice- 
President,  the  Governor  of  this  commonwealth,  and  all  who  are 
in  authority  in  this  and  other  lands,  and  so  influence  them  that 
they  may  rule  in  righteousness.  Grant  that  from  these  halls  may 
go  forth  each  year,  in  increasing  numbers,  those  who  shall  bless 
our  land  and  the  world. 

O  Lord,  whose  favor  is  life,  and  in  whose  presence  there  is  full- 
ness of  peace  and  joy,  vouchsafe  unto  us  all,  we  pray  Thee,  such 
an  abiding  sense  of  the  reality  and  glory  of  the  things  that  are 
enduring,  those  things  which  Thou  hast  prepared  for  those  that 
love  Thee,  that  we  may  rise  above  the  material  into  the  realm  of 
the  spiritual,  even  into  constant  communion  with  Thyself. 

All  these  favors,  with  the  pardon  of  all  our  sins,  we  humbly  ask 
in  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ  our  Saviour,  who  has  taught  us  while 
praying  to  say : 

Our  Father  who  art  in  heaven,  hallowed  be  Thy  name.  Thy 
kingdom  come.  Thy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven. 
Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread,  and  forgive  us  our  trespasses  as 
we  forgive  them  that  trespass  against  us.  And  lead  us  not  into 
temptation,  but  deliver  us  from  evil.  For  Thine  is  the  kingdom, 
the  power,  and  the  glory  forever.  Amen. 


THE  INDUCTION  AND  THE  PRESENTATION 
OF  THE  CHARTER  AND  THE  SEAL 


THE  INDUCTION  AND    THE  PRESENTA- 
TION OF  THE  CHARTER  AND  THE  SEAL 

HENRY  CRUISE  MURPHY  INGRAHAM,  LL.D. 

OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1864 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 

WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,  DOCTOR  OF  HUMANE  LETTERS  AND 
DOCTOR  OF  LAWS  : 

IT  has  been  assigned  to  me  to  represent  the  Trustees  of  Wes- 
leyan  University  on  this  auspicious  occasion. 

When  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bradford  P.  Raymond,  our  last  president, 
found  it  necessary  from  failing  health  to  resign  his  office,  after  a 
long  administration  in  which  the  most-used  buildings  we  now 
have  were  erected,  the  college  departments  of  study  increased, 
and  the  number  and  efficiency  of  our  Faculty  enlarged,  it  became 
our  duty  to  secure  his  successor. 

Your  brilliant  career,  especially  as  President  of  the  Upper  Iowa 
University,  induced  us  to  invite  you  to  the  vacant  place,  and 
to-day  we  are  enthusiastic  in  having  your  acceptance  of  the  office. 
In  this  sentiment  we  are  not  alone.  All  the  students  and  Faculty 
and  the  alumni  and  friends  of  our  college,  so  far  as  they  have 
become  acquainted  with  you,  seem  to  share  with  us  this  en- 
thusiasm. 

You  come  to  an  institution  that  is  still  young  but,  nevertheless, 
has  made  a  record  of  great  usefulness.  Men  prominent  in  science 
and  in  industries,  and  eminent  physicians  and  lawyers  and  clergy- 
men are  numbered  among  its  graduates ;  some  of  its  alumni  have 
become  bishops,  and  others  judges  in  our  highest  courts,  and  still 
others  have  become  members  of  the  Legislature  in  various  states, 
and  of  the  House  of  Representatives  and  of  the  Senate  of  the 
United  States ;  and  most  of  the  leading  colleges  and  universities 
in  America,  both  for  men  and  for  women,  have  had  or  now  have 
in  their  service  instructors  or  professors  or  presidents  who  were 

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fitted  for  their  high  work  at  Wesleyan.  As  a  rule,  all  these  gradu- 
ates have  stood  for  good  citizenship  and  that  righteousness  which 
exalteth  a  nation. 

I  see  in  the  public  press  that  the  President  of  the  United  States 
said  in  Georgia  a  few  days  ago  that  he  liked  to  hear  people  say 
that  he  held  an  office  of  power,  but  that  he  was  bound  to  say  that 
under  existing  circumstances  the  thing  which  impressed  him  most 
was  not  the  power  he  was  to  exercise  under  the  Constitution  but 
the  limitations  and  restrictions  to  which  he  was  subjected  under 
that  instrument.  You,  as  President  of  Wesleyan,  will  find  no 
express  limitations  or  restrictions  to  which  you  will  be  subjected. 
It  is  true,  however,  that  our  charter  is  almost  silent  as  to  your 
duties  and  privileges  and  powers.  The  only  powers  expressly 
given  to  the  President  are  to  "confer  degrees  in  course  and  hon- 
orary and  grant  diplomas  in  such  form  and  to  such  persons  as 
may  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,"  and  to  be  an  ex 
oflicio  member  of  that  Board.  If  these  were  the  only  powers  that 
the  President  of  the  University  could  exercise  he  would  be  im- 
potent indeed;  but  the  charter  authorizes  the  Board  of  Trustees 
to  elect  a  President  of  the  University,  and  when  elected  it  must 
be  true  that  all  the  powers  that  are  implied  in  the  word  "Presi- 
dent" go  with  the  office.  You  are  not  left  to  dictionaries  alone 
for  the  definition  of  that  word.  The  functions  of  that  office  have 
been  worked  out  in  this  country  to  a  large  degree  by  such  men 
as  Fisk  and  Olin,  Witherspoon  and  Woolsey,  Mark  Hopkins  and 
Oilman,  Harper  and  Eliot,  and  by  many  others;  and  it  is  still 
being  worked  out  by  men  now  in  office.  It  will  be  your  privilege 
to  exemplify  and  enlarge  the  meaning  of  that  word  here. 

I  now  present  to  you  a  certified  copy  of  the  charter  of  our  Uni- 
versity, bearing  the  seal  of  this  long-established  and  renowned 
State  of  Connecticut.  It  is  the  evidence  of  our  life  and  the  rule 
of  our  action.  I  also  present  to  you  this  seal,  the  medium  through 
which  we,  as  a  corporation,  must  execute  and  make  valid  our  most 
solemn  deeds.  Acting  under  the  authority  conferred  upon  me, 
and  with  a  sense  of  my  privilege  and  high  honor,  I  now  commit 
to  you  the  destiny  of  our  beloved  institution  and  induct  you  into 
the  office  of  President  of  Wesleyan  University,  with  all  the  au- 
thority and  powers  that  pertain  thereto;  and  I  pledge  to  you, 
Mr.  President,  the  loyal  support  of  our  Board. 


THE  ACCEPTANCE 


OF   THE 

UNIVERSITY 

OF 


THE  ACCEPTANCE 

PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN 
MR.  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  : 

WITH  a  keen  sense  of  the  high  honor  and  the  great  respon- 
sibility, I  accept  the  task  and  the  opportunity  to  which 
the  Board  of  Trustees  has  called  me.  To  foster  this  University, 
to  maintain  her  high  ideals,  to  labor  unceasingly  for  the  deepening 
and  broadening  of  her  service  and  influence,  I  pledge  my  every 
strength.  God  help  me. 


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ADDRESSES  OF  CONGRATULATION 


ADDRESSES  OF  CONGRATULATION 

PROFESSOR  WILLIAM  NORTH  RICE,  PH.D.,  LL.D. 

OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1865 
On  Behalf  of  the  Faculty 
PRESIDENT  SHANKLIN: 

IT  is  my  pleasing  duty  to  bid  you  a  most  cordial  welcome  on 
behalf  of  the  Faculty  of  Wesleyan  University.  As  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  Faculty  I  magnify  my  office.  The  Faculty  is  the 
body  with  which  you  will  be  most  intimately  associated,  and  the 
one  which  is  most  important  in  the  life  of  the  college  over  which 
you  are  to  preside.  Whatever  other  influences  may  be  felt  in  the 
life  of  college  students,  the  primary  and  essential  character  of  a 
college  is  that  it  is  a  teaching  institution.  The  relation  of  teacher 
and  pupil  is  the  foundation  upon  which  the  whole  fabric  of  the 
college  is  built.  When  the  old  universities  of  Europe  kindled 
anew  the  light  of  learning  in  the  Dark  Ages,  it  was  the  fame  of 
great  thinkers  and  great  teachers  that  caused  the  ardent  youth  to 
throng  by  thousands  to  those  centres  of  learning.  Vast  endow- 
ments and  stately  halls  were  a  secondary  development.  And 
to-day  the  title  of  a  college  to  the  love  of  students  and  alumni  and 
to  the  support  of  the  public  rests  upon  the  intellectual  activity, 
the  high  scholarship,  the  aptness  to  teach,  the  loyalty  to  truth  and 
to  all  high  ideals,  of  the  members  of  the  Faculty.  Secondary  to 
these  are  stately  buildings,  rich  museums,  and  even  well-furnished 
libraries  and  laboratories ;  and  without  these  the  college  is  dead — 
a  body  without  the  inspiring  soul. 

The  written  and  the  unwritten  law  of  Wesleyan  University,  its 
Charter  and  By-Laws,  its  precedents  and  traditions,  give  to  the 
Faculty  an  important  share  in  its  government.  If  college  pro- 
fessors possess  the  breadth  and  depth  of  scholarship,  the  knowl- 
edge of  pedagogic  method,  and  .the  high  tone  of  character  which 
their  office  demands,  they  are  entitled  to  a  large  influence  in  shap- 
ing the  curriculum  and  conducting  discipline,  and  in  the  choice  of 

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new  instructors.  I  believe  that  whatever  is  best  in  the  history  and 
educational  ideals  of  Wesleyan  University  is  largely  due  to  the 
influence  of  its  Faculty. 

We  welcome  you  the  more  gladly  because  we  believe  that  you 
are  in  hearty  sympathy  with  our  own  ideals.  Thirty-four  years 
ago,  in  behalf  of  those  who  were  then  my  colleagues,  most  of 
whom  are  "gone  into  the  world  of  light,"  I  promised  to  one  of 
your  predecessors,  whom  we  rejoice  to  have  with  us  on  this  plat- 
form to-day,  the  manly  support  of  independent  men — men  able  to 
assent  without  servility  and  to  dissent  without  acrimony.  Bishop 
Foss  can  bear  testimony  how  well  that  promise  was  kept.  On 
behalf  of  the  far  larger  group  of  my  colleagues  to-day  I  make  to 
you  the  same  promise ;  and  I  know  that  you  would  not  wish  us 
to  promise  anything  more. 

We  recognize  your  great  responsibilities  and  the  heavy  burdens 
which  you  have  to  bear.  You  are  representative  of  the  Trustees 
to  the  Faculty  and  of  the  Faculty  to  the  Trustees,  and  of  both 
Trustees  and  Faculty  to  the  students.  You  represent  the  college 
to  its  alumni  and  to  the  larger  constituency  of  the  general  public. 
You  must  bear  the  responsibility  of  legislation  or  administration 
which  may  be  disapproved  by  individuals  or  by  the  public.  The 
complexity  and  delicacy  of  your  relations  as  President  in  the 
government  of  the  college  demand  for  your  views  of  college  policy 
a  deference  which  we  cheerfully  accord. 

When  you  were  elected  you  were  to  us  personally  a  stranger, 
though  we  knew  of  the  great  work  you  had  achieved  in  another 
institution.  Your  telegram  in  response  to  our  word  of  welcome 
came  to  us  with  the  warmth  of  a  hearty  handshake.  Your  letters 
were  alive  with  the  pulsation  of  a  heart  full  of  loyalty  to  high 
ideals  and  full  of  brotherly  kindness  to  the  men  who  were  to  be 
your  colleagues.  In  your  first  visit  you  made  us  feel  that  we  were 
already  bound  together  by  strong  ties  of  friendship.  We  promise 
you  our  best  help  as  we  work  together  for  the  achievement  of  the 
ideals  which  we  hold  in  common.  It  is  your  ambition  and  ours 
that  Wesleyan  may  be  not  a  big  college,  but  a  great  college — 
great  in  reputation  and  influence,  because  its  ideals  are  high  and 
its  standards  strictly  maintained, — because  its  students  are  men  of 
high  purpose  and  scholarly  achievement, — because  its  professors 
are  fruitful  in  original  investigation,  rich  in  independent  thought, 
able  and  willing  to  teach  with  sympathy  and  with  inspiration, 


WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY  33 

loyal  to  all  truth,  and  reverent  to  Him  in  whom  the  truth  was 
incarnate. 

In  grateful  memory  of  those  who  have  gone  before  us  and  who 
have  made  Wesleyan  what  it  is  to-day,  in  large  inspiring  hope 
for  grander  work  to  be  achieved  in  the  future,  we  join  hands  with 
you,  bidding  you  thrice  welcome,  and  pledging  our  loyal  support 
and  cooperation. 

ARTHUR  T.  VANDERBILT,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE 
STUDENT  BODY 

On  Behalf  of  the  Undergraduates 

DURING  half  the  college  course  of  some  of  us  Wesleyan  has 
lacked  a  permanent  executive,  and,  by  consequence,  a 
definite,  progressive  policy.  To  impatient  undergraduates  it 
seemed  as  if  the  college  were  to  be  without  a  president  eternally. 
Often  we  wished  that  the  selection  of  our  new  leader  had  been 
confided  to  our  hands.  But  in  this  one  instance — if  in  no  other — 
the  undergraduates  do  heartily  congratulate  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees upon  the  wisdom  of  their  conservatism,  for  as  the  result  of 
their  careful  deliberation  we  rejoice  to-day  in  our  new  President, 
a  young  man,  yet  of  ripe  experience  and  of  rare  success  in  a 
similar  position  in  a  western  college — Dr.  William  Arnold 
Shanklin. 

During  the  interregnum  we  often  pondered  the  question  what 
sort  of  man  an  ideal  college  president  would  be.  We  gave  differ- 
ent answers  to  ourselves,  but  all  were  hoping  for  a  man  who, 
whatever  else  he  might  be  capable  of,  could  stand  up  and  say  with 
the  spirit  of  old  Terence,  "I  am  a  man,  and  nothing  human  do  I 
consider  alien  to  me."  We  were  looking  for  a  man  who  knew  the 
entire  map  of  college  life,  and  who  could  see  things  in  their 
genuine  proportions.  We  wished  a  man  interested  in  both  the 
curriculum  and  in  football,  a  man  who  would  be  in  full  sympathy 
with  our  distinctive  undergraduate  institutions,  such  as  our  honor 
system  and  our  plan  of  student  self-government.  Our  ideal  of 
what  our  new  President  should  be  was  lofty — almost  too  lofty,  we 
thought,  for  realization. 

When,  sir,  you  came  among  us  last  February  and  spoke  to  us 
in  chapel  it  almost  seemed  as  if  you  had  taken  your  text  from  old 


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Terence  himself.  Bath  by  your  talk  then  and  by  your  actions  dur- 
ing the  two  busy  months  you  have  been  among  us  you  have  proved 
that  you  understand  every  phase  of  our  college  life.  Our  full  ap- 
preciation can  never  be  expressed  verbally.  The  undergraduates, 
on  their  part,  desire  to  hold  the  full  confidence  of  the  President  of 
the  University,  and  to  trust  his  leadership  in  all  important  college 
matters.  We  rejoice  that  you  so  completely  understand  our  con- 
fidence in  you.  Whatever  enthusiasm,  whatever  power,  whatever 
loyalty  we,  the  undergraduates  of  Wesley  an  University,  have  we 
pledge  unreservedly  and  through  the  course  of  years  to  you,  and 
through  you  to  the  college.  Our  chief  hope  is  for  the  success  of 
your  administration.  We  pledge  not  only  our  loyalty,  our  enthusi- 
asm, our  devotion,  but  the  enthusiasm,  loyalty,  and  devotion  of 
the  growing  classes  who  will  in  the  future  be  led  to  Wesleyan  by 
your  guidance.  With  this  sincere  trust  in  your  success,  we  pledge 
ourselves,  not  by  word  alone,  nor  yet  by  the  sign  of  the  dollar,  but 
by  manly  deeds  of  daily  conduct,  to  your  success  and  the  welfare 
of  the  college.  In  the  name  of  the  undergraduates  of  Wesleyan 
University,  I  bid  you  welcome. 

STEPHEN  HENRY  OLIN,  LL.D. 
OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1866 

On  Behalf  of  the  Alumni 
PRESIDENT  SHANKLIN: 

THE  alumni  give  you  a  hearty  welcome.  We  wish  you  healtfi, 
prosperity,  and  long  and  fortunate  administration  of 
your  office.  Since  the  days  of  Willbur  Fisk  Wesleyan  has  grown 
stronger,  richer,  less  austere,  more  tolerant,  broader  in  aim 
and  sympathy,  but  the  college  life  in  its  essentials  has  not  greatly 
changed.  We  all  felt  the  serenity  and  beauty  of  this  ancient  town. 
We  all  were  close  to  good  examples  of  manly  lives — scholars, 
Christians,  lovers  of  truth.  The  names  of  some  of  them  shine  like 
stars  in  our  memory.  There  was  small  inequality  of  condition, 
there  was  no  luxury.  We  were  occupied  with  things  of  common 
import  and  not  a  little  with  things  of  serious  import.  Sports  which 
rouse  the  college  spirit,  societies  which  intensify  the  college  pur- 
pose— these  have  prospered.  Industry  and  temperance  have  been 


WESLEYAN   UNIVERSITY  35 

the  fashion.  No  man  has  needed  to  be  ashamed  of  enthusiasm. 
One  might  live  long  without  seeing  Vice,  but  Virtue  jostled  us 
every  day.  Some  people  will  say  that  there  has  been  rigidity  and 
constraint,  but,  you,  sir,  have  not  come  from  Hamilton  to  break  a 
mold  of  character  because  it  is  a  mold. 

Great  universities  have  been  dreaming  of  an  education  fash- 
ioned to  the  needs  of  each  man's  gainful  occupation,  and  great 
authorities  are  debating  how  long  the  college  has  to  live.  Here 
in  Middletown,  Mr.  President,  we  believe  that  the  college  will  not 
die,  and  that  its  task,  while  increasingly  difficult,  is  more  than  ever 
beneficent  and  noble.  Raise  the  standard  of  the  college  as  high  as 
you  will,  there  will  be  demand  for  something  higher;  train  each 
man  for  his  profession  as  thoroughly  as  you  may,  he  will  ask  for 
something  broader.  That  part  of  the  higher  education  to  which 
all  educated  men  may  attain  is  the  province  of  the  college,  and  on 
that  table-land — the  loftiest  region  of  common  access  and  mutual 
understanding — resides  forever  the  sovereignty  of  the  world  of 
thought.  There  only  can  its  parliaments  assemble.  There  only 
is  each  profession  judged  by  its  peers.  There  mental  activities  are 
coordinated.  There  the  contributions  of  men  and  schools  and 
universities  are  assessed  and  brought  into  the  common  stock. 
There  are  guarded  the  treasure  house  of  literature  and  the  arsenal 
of  speech.  There  spring  the  ideals  which  inspire  and  the  joys 
which  reward  the  intellectual  life. 

It  is  one  of  the  good  omens  of  this  day  that  in  welcoming  these 
distinguished  men  (whose  speaking  I  delay)  we  think  not  of  their 
professional  accomplishments  as  teachers  or  as  lawyers  but,  rather, 
how  they  serve  the  State,  how  they  use  the  education  which  has 
been  ours  as  well,  how  in  the  sight  of  all  men  they  do  the  things 
which  have  been  for  us,  each  in  his  place,  to  do  or  to  leave  undone, 
and  in  this  presence,  with  a  new  meaning  and  a  new  hope,  we  may 
repeat  the  stately  words  of  Milton,  "I  call  a  complete  and  gen- 
erous education  that  which  enables  a  man  to  perform  justly,  skill- 
fully, and  magnanimously  all  the  offices,  both  private  and  public, 
of  peace  and  war." 


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EX-PRESIDENT  BRADFORD  PAUL  RAYMOND, 
D.D.,  LL.D. 

(President  of  Wesleyan  University,  1889-1908) 
DR.  SHANKLIN: 

IT  is  now  a  little  more  than  twenty  years  since,  standing  in  your 
place,  I  assumed  the  responsibilities  of  the  office  to  which 
you  have  been  called.  It  is  an  office  that  any  man  might  well 
covet,  who  values  the  opportunity  to  serve  his  country  and  to  con- 
tribute to  the  moral  and  spiritual  elevation  of  his  generation. 

The  gentlemen  who  have  addressed  you  have  each  spoken  for  a 
constituency.  For  whom  shall  I  speak  ?  In  anticipating  the  trans- 
forming work  that  is  to  be  wrought  upon  the  raw  material  of  our 
civilization,  I  would  like  to  give  utterance  to  the  sentiments  of 
those  whose  lips  have  long  been  "drifting  dust,"  but  of  whose 
freed  spirits  this  campus  with  its  trees,  these  walls  and  halls,  are 
always  eloquent.  I  will  speak  for  Beach  and  Cummings,  Smith 
and  Bangs,  and  for  Olin  and  Fisk,  and  for  Foss,  the  only  survivor 
of  that  apostolic  group.  They  stood  for  a  spiritual  idealism  whose 
source  was  in  the  Rock  of  Ages. 

I  need  not  tell  you  of  the  burdens  that  come  with  this  office, 
nor  of  the  anxiety  about  men  and  money  that  haunts  the  cold  days 
of  January  and  the  hot  nights  of  July  and  August.  This  anxiety 
is  always  with  the  man  who,  called  to  this  office,  is  sensitive  to  the 
meaning  of  this  trust.  However,  in  spite  of  the  sag  in  things,  the 
perversity  of  men's  minds,  and  the  tightening  of  the  purse-strings 
where  Wesleyan's  gold  lies  concealed,  there  is  an  idealism  that 
works  at  the  root  of  all  life.  In  that  realm  of  spiritual  mysticism, 
where  the  supreme  values  of  life  are  disclosed,  wells  up  the  im- 
pulse that  makes  for  those  values  the  right  of  way.  If  in  the 
generation  past  their  application  was  too  much  limited  to  the 
salvation  of  the  individual,  there  is  no  such  limitation  in  our  time. 
The  politician  and  the  statesman,  the  preacher  and  the  professor, 
the  reformer  and  the  philanthropist  are  all  sociologists.  We  can- 
not neglect  the  individual,  but  we  must  get  these  ideal  values 
into  life.  Never  was  the  outlook  more  promising.  The  world 
itself,  with  its  ordinances,  is  organic  to  these  ideals.  The  granite 
mountains,  the  coal  and  lead,  the  silver  and  gold,  say,  "Here  am  I, 
send  me."  The  march  of  history  unfolds  the  plans  of  this  mystic 


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spirit.  After  a  survey  of  the  long  struggle  of  human  life  John 
Fiske  could  say,  "Hence  it  has  appeared  that  war  and  all  forms 
of  strife  will  cease,  .  .  .  that  a  stage  of  civilization  will  be 
reached  in  which  human  sympathy  shall  be  all  in  all,  and  the  spirit 
of  Christ  shall  reign  supreme  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  the  earth."  It  is  sometimes  said  that  the  college  man  is  a 
theorist,  an  idealist.  Thank  God !  Where,  if  not  on  our  college 
hills,  should  these  supreme  values  be  revealed,  cultivated,  and 
propagated  ? 

In  your  purpose  to  give  currency  to  this  idealism,  to  keep  this 
fountain  of  life  open  and  flowing,  and  to  make  life  worth  living  in 
this  free  land,  both  for  the  highest  and  the  most  humble,  you  will 
have  the  hearty  cooperation  of  an  enthusiastic  student  body,  an 
able  and  industrious  Faculty,  a  devoted  Board  of  Trustees,  and  a 
loyal  body  of  alumni.  Dr.  Shanklin,  I  welcome  you  to  the  splen- 
did task  and  congratulate  you  on  the  rare  opportunity.  May  the 
completion  of  the  decades  as  they  come  and  go  find  you  with  eye 
undimmed,  doing  ever  greater  things  through  Wesleyan  for  the 
commonwealth,  the  nation,  and  the  kingdom  of  God. 

ABRAM  WINEGARDNER  HARRIS,  Sc.D.,  LL.D. 

OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1880 
President  of  Northwestern  University 

I  AM  to-day  a  representative  of  the  West.  The  East  and  West 
are  very  much  alike.  To  be  sure,  the  West  has  many  for- 
eigners, and  our  western  catalogues  are  full  of  names  not  Saxon, 
but  the  ancestry  of  ideals  is  more  potent  than  the  ancestry  of 
blood.  Our  Laganskis,  and  Lagemans,  and  Lovantis,  and  Law- 
sons  ring  true  as  Americans.  The  old  educational  boundaries  of 
the  East  are  fading  out,  and  we  of  the  meridian  claim  your  Orien- 
tal past  as  ours  also. 

And  yet  there  are  some  local  and  temporary  differences — some 
your  advantage,  some  ours.  You  are  old,  you  are  rich;  we  are 
pioneers,  and  poorer.  The  son  of  a  graduate  is  still  rare  in  North- 
western, and  a  grandson  almost  unknown.  The  campus  is  still 
covered  by  the  primeval  forest,  and  at  least  one  active  member  of 
the  Faculty  saw  the  founding  of  both  college  and  town.  The  West 
has  a  great  income,  but  it  has  little  for  endowments.  In  New 


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York  and  eastward  there  are  five  endowed  universities  having  a 
total  property  of  more  than  $8,000,000.  In  all  the  country  be- 
tween New  York  and  California  there  are  only  two,  both  in  Chi- 
cago, and  one  owes  its  wealth  to  the  monumental  generosity  of  a 
single  benefactor — a  citizen  of  the  East.  Or  if  we  make  the  limit 
$2,000,000,  the  record  is  23  to  9.  The  State  universities,  with  their 
great  income,  but  little  endowment,  help  to  restore  the  balance. 
We  are  pioneers.  And  we  must  hurry.  To  get  on,  our  colleges 
have  been  willing  to  suffer  a  bad  road  rather  than  wait  to  mend  it. 
If  our  product  has  sometimes  lacked  finish  it  has  not  lacked 
power.  Of  you,  we  need  to  learn  patience.  But  our  limitations 
have  their  own  blessings.  If  we  cannot  always  get  what  we 
would,  we  make  very  sure  to  get  what  we  can.  Pioneer  condi- 
tions have  kept  us  humble,  and  we  have  escaped  some  guilt  for 
the  excessive  elevation  of  admission  standards,  which  often 
demand  of  the  schools  what  a  school  cannot  do  well — asking  work 
too  advanced  and  too  much  of  everything.  Lack  of  means  has 
limited  the  range  of  our  electives ;  but,  at  any  rate,  we  have  been 
partly  delivered  from  two  college  faults — content  with  mediocrity 
and  the  perennial  freshman,  who,  using  his  liberty  to  devote  him- 
self to  elementary  courses  in  many  subjects,  gets  his  degree  by 
virtue  of  time,  though  in  achievement  still  a  freshman.  These 
things  comfort  us.  Yet  I  tell  no  secret  when  I  say  that  through 
all  the  West  there  is  profound  educational  respect  for  New  Eng- 
land— forcibly  shown  by  the  eastward  drift  of  students.  If  we  go 
West  for  our  course  of  empire,  we  go  East  for  our  course  of 
study.  The  West  is  still  provincial,  and  needs  to  be  awakened  to 
its  educational  power.  But  the  time  of  awakening  approaches, 
and  the  day  is  at  hand  when  the  West  will,  without  fear  or  apol- 
ogy, challenge  the  East  to  the  best  service  for  education.  Perhaps 
we  already  have  something  to  teach  the  East.  Is  it  not  significant 
that  Wesleyan  has  twice  in  succession  taken  its  President  from  the 
Middle  West?  And  I  am  tempted  to  remind  you  that  your  own 
President  Shanklin  had  a  part  of  his  training  upon  my  campus. 

I  represent  also  a  large  group  of  Methodist  colleges  that  ac- 
knowledge Wesleyan  as  mother.  If  I  call  them  Methodist,  I  do 
not  call  you  sectarian,  for  I  verily  believe  there  is  no  college  of 
freer  and  broader  spirit  than  the  college  that  sits  embowered  on 
yonder  hill.  Sectarianism  in  colleges  is  dying,  sectarianism  is 
dying  everywhere,  and  will  soon  be  forgotten  if  only  we  will  let 


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the  dead  past  bury  its  dead.  As  it  passes  let  us  not  be  impatient 
with  what  remains,  which  is  for  the  most  part  only  the  legal  and 
loyal  recognition  of  the  past.  It  is  the  decline  of  sectarianism  that 
makes  it  so  hard  to  say  what  sectarianism  is.  Even  that  able  body, 
the  Carnegie  Foundation,  has  not  been  able  to  find  a  just  and 
scientific  definition  of  sectarianism.  Impatient  zeal  for  the  form 
and  letter  of  nonsectarianism,  now  so  fashionable,  is  likely  to  be 
regarded  by  the  next  generation  as  only  the  form  of  sectarianism 
peculiar  to  this  day.  But  if  we  are  no  longer  sectarian,  let  us  hope 
we  have  not  forgotten  our  gratitude  to  the  pious  generosity  that 
gave  us  birth.  With  few  exceptions,  our  colleges  and  universities 
are  the  result  of  cooperative  effort,  which  has  used  two  agencies 
— the  state  and  the  church;  the  state  when  it  was  rich  enough 
and  actuated  by  large  public  sentiment;  the  church  when  there 
was  lack  of  general  public  sentiment,  or  public  wealth,  or  both. 
The  colleges  and  the  whole  nation  owe  a  debt  of  respect  and  con- 
sideration to  the  American  churches  which  in  the  days  of  national 
poverty  laid  the  foundations  of  American  higher  education. 

Wesleyan  is  counted  a  small  college,  but  in  a  very  true  sense 
every  student  of  nearly  two  score  colleges  scattered  throughout 
this  country  is  a  son  of  Middletown.  Northwestern  drew  from 
Wesleyan  her  first  President,  her  second,  her  fifth,  her  seventh, 
her  eighth,  and  her  last.  And  a  similar  story  might  be  told  of 
many  other  colleges.  To-day  in  Iowa,  in  Illinois,  in  Ohio,  in 
Pennsylvania,  in  Maryland,  and  in  how  many  more  States  Wes- 
leyan men  are  presidents  of  colleges.  Her  sons  are  everywhere  as 
teachers  and  leaders.  What  is  more  important,  for  many  colleges 
she  has  set  up  the  standards  and  ideals  that  have  made  her  perhaps 
the  most  representative  Methodist  college.  More  and  more  am  I 
impressed  with  the  marvelous  work  of  this  college,  which  I  almost 
dare  to  call  the  best  New  England  college.  With  unstinted  ad- 
miration I  congratulate  Wesleyan  on  a  great  record. 

And  you,  sir,  the  new  President  of  Wesleyan,  I  congratulate — 
for  many  things.  For  your  preparation  at  Hamilton,  where  you 
made  sound  beginnings.  From  the  Pacific  you  must  have  brought 
back  some  of  its  welling  courage.  In  the  Middle  West  you  have 
shown  yourself  possessor  of  its  enthusiasm  and  purpose.  And 
now  in  New  England  you  will  learn,  if,  indeed,  you  need  to  learn, 
that  all  these  fine  things  are  to  be  made  perfect  by  patience. 

I  congratulate  you  that  your  name  is  to  be  written  in  the  noble 


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company  of  Fisk,  and  Foss,  and  Olin,  and  Cummings,  and  Van 
Vleck,  and  time  would  fail  me  to  tell  all  the  worthies.  I  con- 
gratulate you  on  the  noble  work  you  enter,  for  no  endeavor  is 
more  inspiring  than  the  leadership  of  young  men.  I  congratulate 
you  upon  the  wonderful  privilege  yours,  to  keep  alive  the  history 
and  spirit  of  this  college.  As  every  great  virtue  to  rule  men  must 
become  flesh,  as  every  nation  personifies  patriotism  in  its  great 
man,  so  this  college  seeks  now  to  enthrone  you  as  her  hero.  What 
Lincoln  means  to  the  American,  may  your  name  mean  to  Wes- 
leyan !  I  congratulate  you  on  a  good  beginning,  on  growing  num- 
bers, on  admiration  and  affection  already  won  from  teachers  and 
from  taught.  And  I  heartily  wish,  what  I  confidently  hope  for, 
that  in  your  new  office  you  may  reach  fullness  of  years,  blessed 
with  ever-increasing  power,  success  and  peace.  May  you  be 
Wesleyan's  greatest  President ! 

MELANCTHON  WOOLSEY  STRYKER,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
President  of  Hamilton  College 

I  CAN  NOT  begin  without  recognizing,  as  you  all  do,  the  great 
approval  given  to  this  place  and  day  by  him  for  whom  every 
heart  here,  with  every  throb  of  it,  prays,  "God  save  the  President 
of  the  United  States !"  I  am  sorry  that  I  am  so  placed  that  I  can- 
not help  speaking  across  him. 

Upon  this  rubricated  day  my  errand  is  simply  one  of  felicitation. 
Leaving  my  few  sheep  in  the  wilderness,  I  have  dared  this  perilous 
journey  down  the  Oriskany,  the  Mohawk,  and  the  Hudson,  and  up 
the  Connecticut,  that,  through  my  poor  lips,  Hamilton  College 
may  present  you,  William  Arnold  Shanklin,  of  her  class  of  '83, 
to  Wesleyan  University. 

At  least  officially  venerable,  I  bring  asphodel  to  garland  our 
friend  withal.  However,  all  of  us  are  the  boys  of  time,  and  cus- 
tom shall  not  stale  us.  If  the  colleges  here  so  honorably  repre- 
sented are  true  to  their  moral  charters,  they  all  are  one  to  insist 
upon  life's  real  valuations.  And  so,  Mr.  President, 

Teuton,  or  Celt,  or  whatever  we  be, 

We  are  each  all  Dane  in  our  welcome  of  thee. 

Forget  not  that  we  are  both  kin  and  kind,  in  that  Hamilton,  in 
1852,  gave  Wesleyan  an  earlier  President  in  the  person  of  Augus- 


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tus  William  Smith,  '25.  Nor  do  I  ungratefully  forget  that  to  our 
President  Simeon  North,  of  long  ago,  Wesleyan  gave  the  Doctor- 
ate of  Divinity  in  1849.  Also  I  will  note  our  present  debt  to  you 
for  your  Frederick  Davenport,  now  filling  full  our  chair  of  polit- 
ical science,  and  as  Senator  of  our  State  making  himself  increas- 
ingly  at  Albany  a  terror  to  evildoers  and  a  praise  to  them  that  do 
well! 

To  a  loquacious  person  the  temptation  is  inevitable  and  all  but 
unconquerable  to  attempt  some  of  the  big  questions,  public,  world- 
including,  which  now  hammer  at  the  doors.  I  will  resist  it,  and 
only  say  that  you,  sir,  are  to  train  and  issue  men  ready  to  be  to 
these  the  fervent  living  answers.  You  have  replied,  and  are  to 
lead  others  to  reply — Adsum. 

It  were  easy  for  me  to  launch  upon  the  Sargasso  sea  where 
shreds  of  detached  advice  to  college  presidents  float  round  and 
round — and  I  won't.  Let  those  men  give  you  advice  who  will 
give  you  nothing  else.  What  I  have  read  in  that  "book  of  se- 
crecy"— I'll  never  tell. 

My  fellow  and  friend :  stretching  your  mind  taut  to  the  music 
of  fidelity,  God  will  lay  his  hand  upon  the  harp.  Those  Hamilton 
men,  with  whom  I  am  here — whom  I  need  not  name,  for  the  land 
knows  them  well — we  all  are  sure  that,  in  emulation  of  that  best 
to  which  the  merely  good  is  always  enemy,  you  will  contend 
earnestly  for  the  good  faith  of  the  college  as  such,  holding  fast  its 
integrity,  yielding  nothing  to  that  interpretation  which  would 
make  it  a  department  store  or  a  bargain  counter.  We  are  sure 
that  you  will  resent  and  resist  that  cheap  opportunism  which  ob- 
trudes itself  upon  educational  theory.  Thus  you  will  prove  that 
what  is  one  man's  stumbling-block  may  be  another's  stair.  Again, 
and  on  this  ground,  may  Emerson's  great  aphorism  in  you  be 
verified — "An  institution  is  but  the  lengthened  shadow  of  a  man !" 

I  end.  Take  it  not  as  a  charge  but  a  token.  When  your  bonny 
brown  hair  is  white,  and  mine  is  ashes,  may  Wesleyan  recall  with 
joy  the  happy  hours  when  you  here  began.  May  your  years  here 
be  faithful  and  fertile,  you  taking  up  what  others  have  laid  down, 
men  replying  to  the  highest  summons  and  going  forth  in  God's 
name,  in  Wesleyan's,  yes,  in  yours,  dear  President,  to  bring  in  a 
brighter  sun.  May  they  be  years  of  undaunted,  vigilant  hope; 
of  high,  incorrigible  faith,  of  love  laborious;  and  may  they  be 
long,  long  years ! 


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Hamilton  acclaims  you  her  son,  hers  once  and  always ;  for  she 
is  ours,  yours  and  mine,  until  w£  die.  Sure  we  are  that  in  the  rote 
and  surf  of  all  the  days  your  zeal  here  will  not  abate  but  rather 
vindicate  your  loyalty  to  that  other  college  which  bore  you. 

I  am  impressed,  good  friends  of  all  this  throng,  that  it  may  be 
said  of  Wesleyan  as  the  ancient  Connecticut  deacon  said  of  his 
wife — "Haow?  She  complains  o'  feelin'  better!" 

ARTHUR  TWINING  HADLEY,  LL.D. 
President  of  Yale  University 

ON  behalf  of  those  who  are  to  be  your  nearest  neighbors,  and, 
I  hope,  your  closest  associates,  I  offer  a  word  of  welcome. 
The  colleges  of  New  England  have  a  large  work  before  them. 
Situated  in  that  part  of  the  country  where  higher  education  was 
earliest  developed,  and  where  intellectual  aims  and  standards  have 
always  commanded  the  attention  of  the  community,  an  institution 
like  this  enjoys  special  advantages  in  promoting  the  cause  of  pure 
scholarship  and  devotion  to  abstract  truth.  We  never  have  been 
able,  and  I  suppose  we  never  shall  be  able,  wholly  to  realize  our 
ideals.  There  will  always  be  some  who  think  play  more  important 
than  study ;  and  there  will  always  be  some  who  value  study  in  pro- 
portion to  the  profit  in  money  or  fame  which  its  pursuit  is  likely 
to  bring.  But  we  always  have  had,  and  we  shall,  I  think,  continue 
to  have  in  increasing  numbers,  a  nucleus  of  true  scholars — of  stu- 
dents who  value  science  and  letters  for  their  own  sake  and  are 
preparing  to  help  the  community  to  value  them  higher  with  each 
successive  generation. 

We  sometimes  hear  complaints  that  the  old  days  of  plain  living 
and  high  thinking  are  gone ;  that  wealth  has  overthrown  our  col- 
lege democracy,  that  multiplicity  of  studies  has  undermined  our 
curriculum,  that  athletic  and  social  interests  have  usurped  the 
place  in  the  mind  of  the  student  which  rightfully  belongs  to  intel- 
lectual pursuits.  You  have  seen  enough  of  American  student  life 
to  know  that  these  complaints  have  scant  foundation ;  that  in  its 
essence  the  American  college  of  1910  is  no  less  democratic  and 
far  more  intellectual  than  the  American  college  of  1880  or  1850. 
It  is  true  that  the  educational  problems  of  to-day  are  more  com- 
plex and  in  some  respects  more  difficult  than  those  which  beset  our 


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fathers.  The  increase  of  wealth  has  made  it  harder  to  insist  on 
simplicity  of  life;  the  increase  in  variety  of  studies  has  made  it 
harder  to  maintain  unity  of  intellectual  and  moral  ideals.  But  the 
same  high  purposes  which  inspired  the  fathers  still  animate  the 
children. 

You  will  find  among  all  the  institutions  with  which  you  come 
in  contact  a  spirit  of  helpfulness  and  cooperation  in  realizing  these 
purposes.  Differences  of  opinion  as  to  the  means  there  always 
will  be ;  as  to  the  end,  and  as  to  the  spirit  in  which  that  end  is  to 
be  approached,  you  will  find  but  one  opinion.  I  welcome  you  into 
association  with  a  group  of  college  presidents  and  professors 
whose  burdens  are  heavy  and  whose  responsibilities  are  heavy,  but 
who  find  both  burdens  and  responsibilities  lightened  by  associa- 
tion in  a  common  cause  for  which  all  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder. 


THE  HONORABLE  ELIHU  ROOT,  LL.D. 
United  States  Senator  from  the  State  of  New  York 

DR.  SHANKLIN,  MR.  PRESIDENT,  GENTLEMEN  OF  WESLEYAN: 

I  REPRESENT  nothing— not  the  humility  of  the  West  nor  the 
ripe  educational  experience  of  the  East;  nothing  but  long 
friendship  and  personal  affection  and  that  admiration  that  comes 
from  the  knowledge  of  a  noble  character.  (Applause.) 

There  is  a  barrier  between  the  generations,  and  on  either  side — 
upon  the  one  side  the  old,  and  upon  the  other  the  young — both  go 
their  ways  ignorant  of  each  other's  thoughts  and  feelings.  Now 
and  then  God  makes  a  man  who  carries  into  mature  life  and  into 
advanced  age  wonderful  enthusiasm  and  sympathy  that  enable 
him  to  pierce  through  the  barrier  and  always  keep  step  with  the 
hearts  upon  the  other  side.  Such  a  man  is  a  born  teacher,  and 
such  a  man  is  your  new  President.  (Applause.)  I  am  glad  that 
he  has  come  to  Wesleyan.  I  have  known  him  since  as  a  boy  he 
entered  Hamilton ;  I  have  followed  his  course,  and  I  am  glad  that 
he  has  landed  here  in  Wesleyan — old  Wesleyan,  sound  to  the  core, 
honest,  faithful,  living,  worthy  of  praise  and  of  faith  and  of 
hope.  The  boy  and  the  man  and  the  institution  fit  each  other. 
(Applause.) 

You  have  an  all-round  college  to  train  character  and  to  train 
men  as  well  as  merely  to  instruct  them.  The  world  is  full  of  mis- 


44    INSTALLATION   OF   PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

fits  because  men  have  not  known  what  they  were  suited  for  or 
what  their  tastes  were.  The  world  is  full  of  men  who  are  un- 
happy because  outside  of  the  particular  thing  through  which  they 
have  sought  fame  and  fortune  they  have  no  tastes.  There  is  noth- 
ing that  such  men  can  do  when  fortune  is  won  except  to  go  on 
making  more  fortunes.  You  educate  men  to  a  broad  enough  view 
of  life,  of  literature,  of  science,  of  all  that  the  interests  of  men  can 
attach  to,  so  that  a  man  can  be  something  besides  a  mere  machine 
working  in  a  single  groove.  The  pendulum  swings  to  and  fro.  I 
think  its  swing  has  been  of  late  too  much  toward  instructing  men 
so  that  they  could  do  one  thing  for  themselves,  instead  of  educat- 
ing them  so  that  they  could  do  great  things  for  the  world  by  being 
men  in  the  world.  (Applause.) 

And  it  is  right  and  seemly  that  to  such  an  institution  should 
come  the  President  of  the  United  States  to  give  his  countenance 
and  to  join  his  felicitations  and  to  share  with  you  your  hope — 
you  gentlemen  of  the  new  administration  and  the  old  college — 
because  from  such  sources  as  this,  thank  God !  upon  many  a 
hillside  of  our  land,  come  the  influences,  and  the  characters  that 
are  to  make  our  government  still  more  useful  and  prosperous  and 
glorious,  in  the  forefront  of  civilization  and  the  preserver  of 
liberty  and  justice  and  peace.  (Applause.) 

WILLIAM  HOWARD  TAFT,  LL.D. 
The  President  of  the  United  States 

MR.  PRESIDENT: 

AFTER  the  felicitous  congratulations  which  you  have  re- 
ceived from  men  of  this  University,  from  men  of  your  own 
Alma  Mater,  I  feel  a  little  as  if  I  were  uttering  an  alien  note,  for 
it  has  not  been  my  good  fortune  personally  to  know  you  long.  I 
cannot  forget  that  my  acquaintance  began  with  you  when  for 
another  presidency  I  was  attempting  to  convince  the  people  how 
they  ought  to  exercise  their  judgment,  and  then  I  was  talking,  and 
it  seems  to  me  I  have  been  talking  ever  since.  (Laughter  and 
applause.)  And  if,  sir,  there  is  lacking  in  what  I  have  to  say  the 
polish  and  elegance  of  an  address  which  this  occasion  requires, 
you  will  understand  from  the  exigency  in  which  you  saw  me  at 
the  time  why  it  is  absent  from  what  I  have  to  address  to  you. 


WESLEYAN   UNIVERSITY  45 

The  President  of  your  Board  of  Trustees  instituted  by  implica- 
tion a  comparison  between  the  powers  which  you  are  about  to 
exercise  and  those  which  the  Constitution  accords  to  the  President 
of  the  United  States.  I  have  had  some  experience  in  college  gov- 
ernment of  an  incidental  character,  and  I  am  able  to  congratulate 
you,  sir,  that  the  powers  which  you  will  exercise  as  President  are 
the  powers  which  you  choose  to  exercise  (laughter),  and  it  is 
well  that  it  should  be  so.  I  would  not  advocate  or  be  understood 
to  advocate  any  change  in  the  existing  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  I  think  it  is  excellent ;  but  for  the  control  of  an  institution 
like  this,  in  order  that  it  may  work  out  its  destiny  as  it  should 
work  it  out,  the  great  responsibility,  and,  therefore,  the  great 
power,  must  be  in  its  president.  And  I  congratulate  you  that  it  is  so 
because  of  the  opportunities  that  the  position  offers  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  character  of  a  body  of  young  men  that  if  properly 
developed  are  bound  to  exercise  a  profound  influence  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  nation.  Coming  here  at  the  most  formative  period  of 
their  lives,  they  here  take  in  not  only  the  instruction  and  the 
education,  to  observe  the  distinction  made  by  that  gentleman  who 
preceded  me  [referring  to  Senator  Root]  and  represented  nobody 
(laughter),  though  they  think  differently  in  New  York  about  that 
(applause),  but  also  that  spirit  of  an  institution  called  sometimes 
"the  college  spirit,"  that  takes  its  form  and  influence  as  much 
from  the  personal  character  and  personal  influence  of  the  head  of 
the  institution  as  from  any  other  source.  Now,  that  spirit  is 
different  from  the  education  that  we  get.  It  is  something  hard 
to  define;  it  is  something  that  stands  through  life  for  the  men 
who  come  under  its  influence  as  a  restraint  from  evil,  and  fur- 
nishes an  aspiration  for  good.  (Applause.)  Except  for  the 
influence  of  the  family  upon  a  man,  there  is  nothing  I  know  of 
that  prompts  such  endeavor,  that  keeps  men  in  honorable  courses 
like  the  desire  to  stand  well  with  the  men  who  for  four  years 
develop  from  youth  to  manhood  in  the  same  class  and  under  the 
same  influences. 

Mr.  President,  the  influence  of  the  college  graduate  and  the 
duty  which  he  owes  to  himself  and  society,  to  take  an  interest  in 
public  affairs,  perhaps  I  may  speak  of  for  a  moment.  I  cannot 
forget  that  it  was  within  the  walls  of  Wesleyan  that  George 
William  Curtis  delivered  that  great  oration  in  1856  upon  the  duty 
of  the  college  man  and  the  scholar  in  politics,  and  I  doubt  not  that 


46     INSTALLATION    OF    PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

the  spirit  that  he  there  enthused  has  continued  in  old  Wesleyan 
ever  since  and  that  it  will  grow  under  your  influence.  (Applause.) 

I  do  not  know  how  much  greater  influence  college  men  exert 
to-day  in  the  public  life  of  our  nation  than  before.  Certainly  there 
are  more  of  them ;  certainly  the  standard  is  as  high  in  institutions 
of  learning  to-day  as  it  ever  was.  I  cannot  help  thinking  that 
unless  the  colleges  of  the  country  and  the  universities  of  the 
country  do  their  duty,  and  continue  to  turn  out  men  who  are  will- 
ing to  sacrifice  themselves  to  the  public  weal,  there  will  be  a  retro- 
grade step  in  this  country. 

Something  has  been  said  about  small  colleges.  There  are  ad- 
vantages in  large  colleges  and  there  are  advantages  in  small 
colleges.  The  advantage  of  the  smaller  institution  is  that  you 
come  closer  into  contact  with  the  student  body — you  as  President 
and  the  Faculty  as  members — and  that  there  comes  under  your 
close  observation  the  growth  of  the  character  of  the  men  for 
whom  you  are  responsible.  I  deprecate  what  seems,  in  accordance 
with  the  spirit  of  the  age,  the  desire  to  increase  each  class,  the 
desire  to  report  that  upon  this  year  the  freshman  class  was  larger 
than  ever  before.  It  seems  to  me  that  while  that  furnishes  a 
motive  for  pride  for  the  moment,  it  also  increases  the  burdens  of 
the  administration  and  necessitates  hunting  for  money  in  order  to 
meet  the  increased  expenditure.  Mr.  Bryce,  in  his  American 
Commonwealth,  comments  on  the  tremendous  advantage  that  the 
United  States  has  had  in  the  fact  that  there  are  small  colleges 
everywhere  in  the  country  offering  an  opportunity  by  proximity 
to  the  young  men  for  higher  education;  and  I  cannot  conceive 
anything  more  inviting  than  the  taking  of  a  comparatively  small 
body  of  young  men  and  developing  them  under  your  immediate 
influence  and  bringing  out  those  traits  of  high  character  for 
which,  after  all,  all  instruction  and  all  education  and  all  training 
are  the  preparation  and  the  basis. 

Mr.  President,  I  am  one  of  those  who  have  advice  and  nothing 
else  to  offer.  (Laughter  and  applause.)  I  congratulate  Wesleyan 
University  that  it  is  to  have  such  a  President.  It  has  been  sug- 
gested at  times  when  it  fell  to  my  lot  to  take  part  in  the  selection 
of  a  president  of  a  university  that  what  we  needed  was  a  business 
man ;  a  man  who  knew  the  value  of  a  dollar  and  how  to  get  it ; 
the  man  who  could  put  the  institution  on  a  business  basis.  Well, 
I  am  glad  always  to  have  dissented  from  any  such  ideal  in  a  college 


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president.  (Applause.)  I  am  not  attacking  business  men.  But 
a  man  who  is  a  business  man,  and  only  a  business  man,  has  his 
limitations;  and  they  are  such  as  to  exclude  him  from  a  college 
presidency.  A  college  president  is,  first  of  all,  a  teacher.  That  is 
his  profession.  The  university  is  a  teaching  instrument,  and,  if 
he  would  fulfill  the  measure  of  his  duty,  he  must  understand  how 
teaching  is  best  done.  Therefore,  he  must  be  a  pedagogue.  It  is 
his  profession.  Of  course,  as  in  every  other  profession,  where  a 
great  institution  has  to  be  looked  after,  he  must  have  the  executive 
ability,  and  he  must  have  that  highest  one  of  executive  abilities — 
the  power  of  selecting  the  men  for  the  work  which  they  are  to  do. 
Now,  I  submit  that  unless  he  is  a  teacher,  and  understands  gen- 
erally with  reference  to  all  teaching  that  is  to  be  done  in  the  uni- 
versity, he  is  not  fitted  to  make  the  selections  which  are  to  build 
up  the  faculty  which  is  to  do  the  work  of  the  institution. 

And  I  congratulate  you,  sir,  and  I  congratulate  the  University 
that  it  has  a  President  that  fills  in  every  respect  the  measure  which 
I  have  described.  (Applause  and  cheers.) 


THE  INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 


THE  INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 

PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN, 
L.H.D.,  LL.D. 

PRESIDENT  TAFT,  MR.  PRESIDENT  AND  GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  TRUS- 
TEES, MY  ASSOCIATES  OF  THE  FACULTY,  ALUMNI  AND  STUDENTS 
OF  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY,  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN  : 

IT  is  not  in  my  own  name  but  in  the  name  of  learning  that  I 
thank  you  all  for  these  gracious  greetings  and  the  favor  of 
your  presence.  You  are  here  not  to  honor  an  individual,  but  to 
attest  your  appreciation  of  the  cause  he  represents — a  cause  as 
sacred  as  the  rights  of  man.  Yet  that  man  would  indeed  be  dull 
of  pulse  who  could  stand  in  this  presence  and  not  be  moved  there- 
by and  by  the  thoughts  that  spring  from  such  a  scene.  Your  words 
both  humble  and  inspire  me.  They  express  a  hopefulness  and  a 
confidence  which  it  will  tax  human  capacity  to  the  utmost  to 
justify;  and  I  here  pledge  myself  anew  with  good  heart  and  will- 
ing service  to  the  deepening  and  broadening  influences  which  are 
the  destiny  of  Wesleyan  University  in  her  service  to  the  world. 
For  a  college  cannot  belong  exclusively  to  a  class,  sect,  or  creed, 
or  have  geographical  or  other  similar  relations.  It  cannot  be  con- 
fined to  a  country,  generation,  or  time.  It  must  be  so  conducted 
that  while  best  serving  each  generation  in  its  turn  it  will  ever  adapt 
itself  to  the  new  and  larger  wants  of  the  larger  one. 

There  has  been  in  recent  years  a  great  deal  of  discussion  as  to 
the  question  whether  our  colleges  and  universities  are  doing  the 
work  they  might  do.  Reformers  of  divers  types  have  fiercely 
assailed  the  college,  some  declaring  that  it  is  face  to  face  with  a 
veritable  struggle  for  existence,  some  even  contending  that  it  has 
become  an  unnecessary  part  of  our  educational  system.  The  pres- 
ent year  has  been  noteworthy  for  the  serious  study  given  to  col- 
lege problems.  We  have  had  the  benefit  of  the  pregnant  inaugural 
addresses  of  several  leaders.  Books  like  those  of  Flexner  and 
Birdseye,  products  of  profound  study,  however  much  we  may 
differ  from  them  in  some  of  their  conclusions,  have  been  a  worthy 


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contribution.  Indeed,  there  is  a  general  awakening  to  the  real 
seriousness  of  the  problem  of  higher  education  in  America.  It  is 
as  true  to-day  as  when  Bacon  wrote:  "A  just  story  of  learning, 
containing  the  antiquities  and  originals  of  knowledges  and  their 
sects,  their  inventions,  their  traditions,  their  diverse  administra- 
tions and  managings,  their  flourishings,  their  oppositions,  decays, 
depressions,  oblivions,  removes,  with  the  causes  and  occasions  of 
them  and  all  other  events  concerning  learning,  I  may  truly  affirm 
to  be  wanting." 

The  college  is  essential  to  civilization.  Every  people  that  has 
made  a  luminous  spot  in  history  has  generated  its  light  in  the  halls 
of  colleges  and  universities.  To-day  the  college  asserts  itself  in 
every  civilized  land,  not  least  in  our  own,  as  the  servant  of  an  ideal 
without  which  life  would  be  barren.  To  destroy  the  college  would 
be  to  turn  back  the  hands  upon  the  dial  of  history  for  centuries ; 
to  support  it  is  to  set  free  a  vitalizing  energy  in  every  field  of 
human  endeavor.  The  very  existence  of  the  free  institutions  of 
which  we  boast  may  depend  at  last  upon  the  work  of  the  college. 
The  most  enthusiastic  patriotism  cannot  shut  its  eyes  to  the  fact 
that  our  institutions  are  still  on  trial.  They  have  not  passed 
beyond  the  experimental  stage.  The  problems  of  republican  gov- 
ernment are  not  yet  solved.  We  are  the  first  successful  republic, 
and  we  have  not  yet  succeeded.  The  problems  of  constitutional 
liberty  must  be  solved  in  our  colleges  and  universities,  which  must 
instill  a  deeper  discipline,  a  higher  manhood,  and  a  more  intelli- 
gent patriotism  than  we  have  at  present.  The  college  is  the 
fountain  of  intelligence.  Without  the  college  we  cannot  long 
maintain  common  schools.  Without  common  schools  we  cannot 
long  maintain  general  intelligence.  Without  general  intelligence 
we  cannot  maintain  our  liberties.  "Our  republic  will  not  survive 
our  intelligence." 

Is  the  college  of  to-day  fulfilling  its  double  function  ?  Is  it  send- 
ing forth  men  of  globular  culture?  Is  it  training  men  who  will 
shirk  no  demand  and  reckon  less  than  nothing  any  of  the  penalties 
of  high  leadership;  men  of  intellectual  length  and  of  spiritual 
girth ;  men  who,  alert,  unbending,  invincible,  by  their  embattled 
personalities,  by  head  and  heart,  by  brain  and  soul,  serve  their  day 
and  generation?  Herbert  Spencer  declared  that  the  function  of 
education  is  to  prepare  for  complete  living,  that  its  life  and  dis- 
cipline are  a  process  of  preparation,  not  a  process  of  information. 


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True  culture  necessarily  implies  the  development  of  all  one's  facul- 
ties. It  also  implies  a  thorough  examination  of  some  particular 
topic.  The  educated  man  should  know  something  of  everything 
and  everything  of  something.  The  truest  preparation  for  life, 
whatever  the  vocation  is  to  be,  is  wide-mindedness,  an  interest  in 
the  whole  round  of  lore  and  life,  a  heart  responsive  to  the  multi- 
formity of  knowledge.  This  supplies  that  catholicity  of  mind 
which  should  be  won  in  college  life.  To  "see  things  as  they  really 
are"  is  one  of  the  rarest  privileges  of  the  educated  man.  To  help 
others  to  see  them  so  is  one  of  the  greatest  services  he  can  render. 
In  the  words  of  Phillips  Brooks,  he  must  "bring  in  himself  such  a 
character  as  shall  transmit  truth  to  men,  and,  gathering  the  light 
that  lies  above  the  stars,  lay  it  in  clear,  soft  rays  upon  the  daily  life 
and  work  of  men  so  that  they  may  not  be  in  darkness." 

It  has  long  been  the  boast  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  that  they 
have  trained  the  governors  of  England.  Our  colleges  and  uni- 
versities have  been  and  are  rendering  the  same  sort  of  service  to 
the  United  States.  At  least  I  am  certain  that  the  heads  of  our  col- 
leges agree  that  the  will  and  determination  to  be  of  service 
to  our  fellow  men  is  the  corner  stone  of  American  academic  philos- 
ophy. The  distinctive  characteristic  of  the  English  university  is 
culture,  and  that  of  the  German  university  is  scholarship.  But  the 
unconscious  aim  and  spirit  of  the  American  higher  institution  of 
learning  may  best  be  defined  by  the  word  "service" ;  service  by  the 
scholar,  by  him  whom  Mr.  Emerson  characterizes  as  Man  Think- 
ing. The  moral  obligations  of  the  college  man  to  make  his  training 
efficient  in  the  stream  of  life  cannot  invite  too  ardently  nor  compel 
too  sternly.  Service  is  his  business;  "not  warbling  himself  to 
death  on  a  pink  cloud,  but  meeting  the  epidemic  of  the  world, 
penurious  of  not  one  resource,  so  as  to  get  the  thing  done."  Ca- 
pacity to  serve,  diligence  to  serve,  is  the  only  earldom  in  this  land. 
One  maximizes  service  by  minimizing  self,  finds  life  by  losing  it — 
the  paradox  of  all  loftiest  manhood.  This  purpose  of  service- 
ability held  fast 

Shall  find  the  toppling  crags  of  duty,  scaled, 

Are  close  upon  the  shining  table-lands 

To  which  our  God  himself  is  Moon  and  Sun. 

The  personality  of  the  teacher  is  the  chiefest  problem  in  all 
grades  of  education.  The  most  important  thing  about  a  college  is 
its  Faculty,  and,  whatever  else  it  may  have,  it  cannot  be  great 


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without  a  great  Faculty.  "The  teacher  is  the  school,"  well  say  the 
Germans.  In  order  to  do  its  work  in  the  training  of  leaders  the 
college  must  have  in  its  Faculty  great  personalities,  men  of  pro- 
found and  accurate  scholarship,  lovers  of  learning  and  lovers  of 
men,  who  hold  truth  as  more  precious  than  rubies  and  more  to  be 
desired  than  fine  gold,  who  long  to  share  the  truth  with  all  others. 
Truth  is  mighty,  but  truth  in  personality  is  well-nigh  almighty. 
Personality  is  difficult  to  define,  but  we  all  recognize  it,  and  when 
we  come  into  the  presence  of  it  we  instinctively  pay  it  homage. 
In  high  personality  there  must  be  the  intellectual  element  which 
knowledge  supplies,  and  the  emotional  element  which  enables  one 
to  feel  things,  and  the  volitional  element  that  one  may  do  things, 
and  the  ethical  element  which  puts  conscience  into  things.  It  was 
this  composite  in  Mark  Hopkins  that  Garfield  glorified  in  his 
famous  saying,  "that  a  log  with  President  Hopkins  on  one  end  of 
it  and  a  student  on  the  other  would  be  a  college."  It  is  because  of 
this  possibility  of  power  in  personality  that  the  living  teacher 
cannot  be  superseded.  Books  will  not  do  the  work.  A  living  man 
before  living  men  will  forevermore  be  mightier  than  paper  and 
ink.  Professor  James,  in  his  chapter  on  the  Will,  has  told  us  to 
how  large  an  extent  it  is  true  that  we  catch  both  our  courage  and 
our  faith  from  others.  And  at  no  time  more  than  during  the 
growing  years  of  undergraduate  life  is  there  needed  this  life- 
giving  touch  of  scholarly  and  courageous  and  believing  personal- 
ities. There  are  invaluable  elements  of  education  which  can  reach 
one  only  through  living  contact  with  the  mind  and  personality  of 
a  teacher  who  is  a  master  of  his  subject.  It  is  a  silent,  continuous 
induction  of  life  into  life  that  is  essential.  In  the  study  of  philos- 
ophy, of  psychology,  of  ethics,  of  history,  of  literature,  one  im- 
portant influence  at  least  is  the  quickening  of  intellectual  life  by 
sympathy  with  the  spirit  of  the  teacher.  A  real  teacher  is  not  a 
mechanical  medium.  He  is  for  the  moment  his  subject  vitalized 
with  the  inner  power  of  new  and  living  thought,  of  ideas  made 
alive  by  passing  through  and  absorbing  a  human  intelligence. 

Mr.  Birdseye,  in  writing  of  colleges  which  are  connected  with 
large  universities,  recognizing  that  education  is  the  influence  of 
life  upon  life,  is  justly  insistent  that  there  must  be  found  a  substi- 
tute for  the  fructifying  touch  of  the  professor  on  his  pupil.  Fortu- 
nately for  our  youth,  a  reaction  in  favor  of  the  unattached  college 
of  moderate  size  has  set  in.  I  do  not  use  the  term  "small  college," 


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which  I  personally  dislike  and  which  it  seems  undesirable  to  per- 
petuate. The  term  "unattached,  independent"  is  preferable. 

In  the  'University  the  function  of  teaching  is  necessarily  sub- 
ordinated to  investigation.  This  means  the  losing  of  that  subtle 
quality,  the  personality  of  the  teacher,  which  is  at  the  basis  of  all 
true  education.  Mr.  Charles  Francis  Adams,  in  his  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  address  at  Columbia  University  a  few  years  ago,  makes  a 
strong  plea  for  the  restoration  of  the  personal  touch  between 
teacher  and  student,  declaring  that  in  the  institution  with  a  large 
number  of  students  the  periodical  examination  paper  is  the  nearest 
approach  to  personal  contact,  and  that  the  average  undergraduate 
is  merely  one  unit  in  an  impersonal  mob. 

Wesleyan  University,  amid  all  the  vicissitudes  of  pedagogical 
theories  of  the  last  decade  or  two,  has  ever  remained  true  to  its 
own  ideal  as  a  college  where  teaching,  the  upbuilding  of  mind  and 
character,  is  regarded  as  the  chiefest  function  of  the  American 
college.  At  the  same  time  Wesleyan  has  gained  a  just  reputation, 
second  to  none,  in  the  productivity  on  the  part  of  its  Faculty  in  the 
humanities  and  science. 

There  are  various  ways  of  regarding  teaching.  One  man  calls 
it  a  dingy  trade.  Another  rejects  all  responsibility  outside  of  the 
classroom,  maintaining  that  his  sole  duty  is  to  advance  the  knowl- 
edge of  his  subject,  utterly  regardless  of  the  men  before  him. 
Wesleyan  University  is  a  college  which  prefers  to  regard  it, 
with  Professor  Palmer,  as  a  beautiful  art.  It  should  be  the 
glory  of  the  college  professor  that  he  is  a  teacher  of  men.  Presi- 
dent Pritchett,  in  a  recent  report,  says,  "Research  is  a  word  to 
conjure  with,  but  in  the  last  two  decades  more  sins  have  been  com- 
mitted in  its  name  against  good  teaching  than  we  are  likely  to 
atone  for  in  the  next  generation."  We  maintain  that  man  does 
not  live  by  bread  alone ;  that  preparation  for  profession  or  busi- 
ness, for  the  making  of  money,  for  the  obtaining  of  social  or 
political  position,  is  not  the  only,  nor  is  it  the  prime  function  of  a 
college.  Education  includes  a  moral  and  religious  nature ;  char- 
acter makes  men  and  nations,  and  is  more  than  knowledge ;  and 
the  highest  function  of  a  college  professor  should  be  to  see  and 
feel  God  in  science,  history,  and  literature,  and,  to  use  the  beautiful 
expression  of  Dante,  to  be  a  light  between  the  student  and  the 
truth. 

While  I  believe  that  for  undergraduate  study  the  distinction 


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between  the  small  and  the  large  college  is  in  favor  of  the  small 
college,  I  am  not  particularly  insistent  that  the  college  be  small  or 
large.  It  should  be  the  qualitative,  and  not  the  quantitative,  that 
should  distinguish  her.  A  university  may  be  big  and  yet  be  small, 
and  a  college  may  be  small  and  yet  be  very  large.  The  great 
Master  of  Balliol  again  and  again  asserted  that  his  success  in 
reorganizing  that  college  which  led  on  to  the  practical  reorganiza- 
tion of  all  Oxford,  should  be  attributed  to  the  limited  number  of 
students  in  Balliol  and  his  consequent  ability  to  reach  every  one 
of  them  with  his  direct,  personal  influence.  For  the  value  of  any 
teacher  diminishes  as  the  square  of  his  distance  increases.  The 
closer  the  student  can  come  to  the  instructor,  the  more  completely 
the  rich,  full,  deep  life  of  the  one  can  be  brought  to  bear  upon  the 
rapidly  unfolding  life  of  the  other,  the  more  valuable  will  be  the 
contribution  of  the  college  to  the  development  of  the  student. 

Wesleyan  can  never  be  a  college  of  great  numbers.  So  be  it, 
and  ten  thousand  times  so  be  it.  Therein  lies  for  Wesleyan  an 
unique  opportunity  if  only  we  are  bold  enough  and  brave  enough 
to  seize  it.  Our  compact  tradition  and  enthusiastic  solidarity  of 
life,  where  every  man  of  Faculty  and  undergraduates  knows  every 
other  man,  joined  with  the  positively  assured  high  intellectual 
ideal  of  Wesleyan,  have  given  the  college  its  distinguished  place 
among  the  institutions  of  the  land.  The  president  of  one  of 
our  largest  universities  has  wittily  called  attention  to  the  fact 
that  he  has  noticed  that  those  colleges  which  boast  of  their 
limited  number  of  students  are  never  known  to  turn  away  any 
seeking  matriculation.  We  openly  announce  that  Wesleyan  will 
not  essay  to  compete  for  mere  numbers,  and  that  she  does  not 
desire  at  any  time  above  five  hundred  undergraduates.  She  will  be 
content  with  small  but  picked  classes.  We  believe  that  then  we 
shall  continue  to  attract  to  the  Faculty  scholars  of  the  first  rank, 
who  are  tired  of  adapting  their  instruction  to  the  requirements  of 
incompetents,  and  of  resisting  appeals  from  the  Athletic  Com- 
mittee to  give  their  "star"  one  more  chance.  Within  the  last 
dozen  years  no  less  than  seven  of  our  professors — one  of  them 
has  had  three  offers — have  been  offered  more  lucrative  positions 
in  larger  institutions,  and  have  quietly  declined  them.  More  than 
one  of  these  men  has  in  his  field  of  study  no  superior  as  a 
scholar  in  any  institution  in  America.  With  an  unsurpassed 
equipment  for  an  unequaled  body  of  picked  students  we  shall  not 


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fear  for  the  issue  in  point  of  intellectual  and  moral  achievement, 
of  internal  enthusiasm  or  of  external  eclat  in  comparison  with  the 
work  of  immense  educational  plants  that  are  already  confessedly 
unwieldy,  and  of  great  numbers  that  have  already  become  hetero- 
geneous. President  Stryker  speaks  not  only  for  Hamilton  College, 
but  as  well  for  Wesleyan  and  other  like  strong,  independent  col- 
leges: "The  genuine  college  is  bent  to  discover,  to  awaken,  to 
excite  noble  emulation ;  to  make  for  sanity  of  mind  and  body ;  to 
teach  the  soul  to  swim;  to  rub  men  close  as  life  will  rub  them; 
to  promote  an  accuracy  and  a  promptitude  that  are  not  pedantry, 
and  a  vision  that  is  not  dreaming ;  to  develop  intellectual  poise  and 
reach,  along  with  accuracy  of  expression  and  oral  leadership ;  not 
to  lose  the  unit  in  the  mass ;  to  stimulate  a  common  moral  senti- 
ment which  shall  shame  the  dullard,  the  superficial,  the  unsocial, 
and  repudiate  the  snobbish,  the  profligate,  and  the  false."  And 
the  college  which  does  this  can  never  be  small  to  the  eyes  that  look 
for  quality  rather  than  noisy  bulk. 

Amid  the  epidemic,  now  happily  lyterian,  toward  the  free-and- 
easy  options  of  the  extreme  elective  system,  some  of  us  have  per- 
sistently denied  that  all  subjects  are  equally  valuable,  and  have 
held  fast  to  certain  disciplines  as  not  exclusive  but  as  indispen- 
sable to  a  well-formed  mind.  We  have  refused  to  fall  in  line  with 
that  mischievous  "scrap-heap"  educational  fad,  now  recognized  as 
such  even  by  many  who  until  recently  accepted  it.  Nor  does  this 
mean  that  I  am  not  a  believer  in  the  fundamental  idea  of  the 
elective  system,  namely,  that  of  individuality  and  the  cultivation 
of  aptitudes ;  but  that  idea  has  found  poor  expression  through  the 
unscientific  system,  or  lack  of  system,  so  largely  obtaining.  Hap- 
pily we  are  in  the  midst  of  a  salutary  reaction  against  the  excesses 
of  the  elective  system. 

Even  in  its  early  years  Wesleyan  University  recognized  the 
educational  value  of  modern  languages  and  the  sciences  of  nature ; 
and  the  first  president,  Willbur  Fisk,  maintained  that  the  human- 
ities were  not  the  sole  medium  for  the  acquisition  of  general  cul- 
ture. The  marked  change  from  the  fixed  curriculum  was,  how- 
ever, made  at  Wesleyan  in  1873.  Three  four-year  courses  were 
announced,  leading  respectively  to  the  Baccalaureate  degree  in 
arts,  philosophy,  and  science;  the  first  including  both  Latin  and 
Greek,  the  second  Latin  but  not  Greek,  and  the  third  neither  of  the 
ancient  languages.  In  each  of  these  courses  a  range  of  elective 


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studies  was  provided.  Our  present  system,  leading  to  the  degrees 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  Bachelor  of  Science,  is  a  system  of  elec- 
tion with  certain  absolute  requirements,  the  prime  emphasis  being 
placed  upon  efficiency  in  the  use  of  the  mother  tongue  in  speech 
and  writing.  In  the  choice  of  studies  withal,  election  is  limited 
by  the  necessity  of  certain  prerequisite  studies.  And  overspecial- 
ization  is  averted  by  a  group  system  requiring  each  student  to 
choose  a  specific  number  of  hours  from  each  of  three  divisions  of 
language  and  literature,  science  including  mathematics,  and  the 
"modern  humanities" — history,  philosophy,  ethics,  and  religion. 
Students  must  be  forced  into  some  lines  more  irksome  than  the 
average, man  will  voluntarily  choose.  With  all  these  restrictions 
there  is  constant  need  of  guidance  for  the  student  at  critical  times 
of  choice.  This  we  try  to  give  at  the  time  of  registration;  and 
yet  there  is,  after  all,  a  lamentable  lack  of  information  and  of  wis- 
dom. Many  a  man's  courses  are  determined  by  a  passing  whim  or 
by  accident,  or  along  the  line  of  least  resistance.  A  course  of 
lectures  by  heads  of  departments,  attendance  upon  which  should 
be  required,  clearly  setting  forth  the  claims  and  advantages  of 
different  lines  of  study,  inadequate  as  such  preparation  would  of 
necessity  be,  would  afford  points  of  comparison,  awaken  intelligent 
interest,  and  save  some  men  from  mistakes. 

In  the  curriculum  to-day  the  older  and  the  newer  knowledges 
stand  on  a  common  footing  of  absolute  equality.  Each  particular 
subject  has  its  own  place,  significance,  and  value  in  its  relation  to 
the  totality  of  knowledge  of  which  it  is  a  component  member. 
The  college  is  to  cultivate  the  scientific  habit  of  mind,  the  faculty 
of  grasping  the  universal  element  of  all  human  knowledge.  The 
different  departments  of  knowledge  cannot  be  taught  scientifically 
without  showing  their  relations  to  each  other  as  parts  of  one 
organized  whole.  To  know  any  one  subject  thoroughly  one  must 
know  many  more.  The  most  superficial  knowledge  of  science 
in  any  of  its  provinces  suggests  to  us  by  how  many  links  one  is 
connected  with  another.  Indeed,  "science  is  just  the  search  for 
unity ;  the  endeavor  to  reproduce  in  thought  that  systematic  order 
and  harmony  and  unity  which  exist  in  all  things."  Finally,  it 
leads  us  to  think  of  God  as  the  God  of  truth,  whose  dwelling  place 
is  wherever  knowledge  sheds  its  light  over  the  paths  of  men, 
whom  every  true  thought  and  every  discovery  are  helping  us  to 
know  more  fully. 


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Language  and  the  mathematics  are  the  best  formative  instru- 
ments toward  exactness  and  readiness  and  breadth.  As  the  science 
of  necessary  conclusion,  mathematics  educates  precision,  method, 
and  sureness.  As  the  record  and  the  implement  of  personality, 
language  is  a  prime  means  toward  human  realization  in  the  actual 
world.  These  disciplines,  though  not  exclusive,  are  indispensable 
to  a  well-trained  mind.  No  English  author  ever  wrote  history 
with  such  regal  splendor  as  Lord  Macaulay.  In  one  of  his  letters 
he  betrays  the  secret  of  his  enchanting  style:  "During  the  last 
thirteen  months  I  have  read  ^schylus  twice,  Sophocles  twice, 
Euripides  twice,  Pindar  twice,  Theocritus  twice,  Herodotus  and 
Thucydides,  almost  all  of  Xenophon's  works,  almost  all  of  Plato, 
Aristotle's  'Politics/  and  a  good  deal  of  his  'Organon/  besides 
dipping  elsewhere  in  him ;  the  whole  of  Plutarch's  'Lives/  about 
half  of  Lucian,  two  or  three  books  of  Athenaeus,  Plautus  twice, 
Terence  once,  Lucretius  twice,  Catullus,  Tibullus,  Propertius, 
Lucan,  Livy,  Velleius  Paterculus,  Sallust,  Caesar,  and,  lastly, 
Cicero." 

If  one  would  become  a  master  of  the  immense  wealth  and  vari- 
ous power  of  the  English  tongue  he  must  go  back  with  something 
of  Macaulay's  reverent  enthusiasm  to  the  perennial  sources  of 
that  wealth  and  power.  Nor  should  it  be  overlooked  that  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  ancient  languages  is  of  great  service  in  mastering  the 
details  of  modern  science,  the  terminologies  of  which  are  based  on 
Greek  and  Latin.  So  far  from  the  humanistic  studies  having  lost 
strength  or  efficiency  by  ceasing  to  hold  the  exclusive  position 
which  they  formerly  occupied,  they  have  acquired  a  place  in  the 
higher  education  which  is  more  secure  because  the  acceptance  on 
which  it  rests  is  more  intelligent. 

The  necessity  necessitous  upon  the  college  is  that  the  elective 
system  be  based  upon  scientific  principles  and  the  scientific  study 
of  the  individual  student  himself,  with  special  reference  to  his  char- 
acter, his  intellectual  capacity,  and  his  special  tastes.  But  I  re- 
iterate, far  more  important  than  the  question  of  what  one  shall 
study  is  the  question  of  who  shall  be  the  teachers.  Teachers  are 
more  than  books,  life  is  greater  than  curriculum.  It  is  personality 
that  counts  far  more  than  mechanism.  There  is  no  position  in 
modern  life  with  greater  opportunity  and  larger  responsibility 
than  that  of  the  teacher  in  the  college. 

All  that  has  been  said  of  teaching  and  of  the  curriculum  has 

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direct  application  to  the  undergraduate.  The  college  exists  for  the 
undergraduate,  and  has  in  mind  both  the  individual  welfare  of  the 
student  and  the  society  which  he  should  serve.  The  ideal  student 
never  comes ;  the  actual  student  is  what  we  want.  He  is  "a  com- 
pound of  opportunity,  application,  and  ambition."  Students  might 
well  be  divided  into  three  classes.  The  first  class  includes  him 
whom  I  have  termed  the  actual  student.  Out  of  the  second 
class,  composed  of  men  of  earnest  purpose  with  very  ordinary 
native  powers,  because  of  their  grit  and  determination  come 
many  of  our  leaders.  For  those  of  the  third  class — the  "good 
fellows,"  the  student-loafers,  whose  maxim  is  that  a  gentleman's 
rank  in  college  is  the  lowest  passing  mark — there  is  no  place  in 
college.  For  such  who,  by  some  means,  find  entrance,  the  back 
door  of  the  college  should  move  smoothly  for  their  speedy  exit. 
This  problem  is  not,  however,  a  serious  one  for  the  college  of 
limited  numbers  and  of  high  intellectual  ideals.  At  Wesleyan  if  a 
student,  after  having  been  warned,  continue  his  purposelessness 
and  dawdling,  he  is  summarily  dropped.  From  this  action  of  the 
Faculty  there  is  no  court  of  appeal.  It  is  sometimes  difficult  to 
resist  the  entreaties  and  promises  of  fond  parents  and  of  fraternity 
friends,  but  the  firm  stand  of  the  Faculty  is  tonic  to  the  entire 
undergraduate  body.  It  is  a  practical  emphasization  of  the  fact 
that  the  college  is  a  place  for  intellectual  training. 

In  the  general  atmosphere  of  freedom  which  is  now  recognized 
in  college  life  it  is  natural  that  in  increasing  measure  the  responsi- 
bility for  the  good  conduct  and  the  good  name  of  the  college  body 
should  be  thrown  upon  the  students  themselves.  A  large  share 
of  the  friction  in  college  government  has  come  from  the  fact  that 
Faculty  and  students  have  failed  to  understand  each  other.  For 
several  years  there  has  obtained  at  Wesleyan  a  Conference  Com- 
mittee composed  of  representatives  of  the  Faculty  and  of  the 
undergraduates.  While  the  sole  function  of  this  committee  is  that 
which  its  name  would  indicate — conference — it  has  led  to  mutual 
understanding  and  harmonious  cooperation  for  the  progress  of  the 
college.  In  more  than  one  instance  the  undergraduate  members 
have  recommended  to  the  Faculty  the  dismissal  of  some  flagrant 
offender. 

The  honor  system  of  examinations,  long  in  force  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  and  other  southern  institutions,  was  adopted  at 
Wesleyan  in  1893.  During  these  years  it  has  grown  in  efficiency 


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and  in  the  augmenting  support  of  the  Faculty  and  the  under- 
graduates. Professor  Rice,  who  has  seen  its  working  throughout 
the  entire  period,  says  that  it  has  not  indeed  ushered  in  the  millen- 
nium, but  that  no  one  in  Wesleyan  doubts  that  examinations  are 
safer  when  conducted  by  the  honor  of  the  students  than  when 
guarded  by  the  vigilance  of  the  instructors.  The  atmosphere  of 
mutual  trust  makes  the  whole  life  of  the  college  purer  and  nobler. 
An  editorial  in  the  last  issue  of  one  of  our  undergraduate  publica- 
tions recounts  the  pride  that  the  students  have  in  our  honor 
system,  and  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  it  is  not  so  much  the 
letter  of  the  system  which  arouses  that  pride  as  it  is  the  spirit 
which  makes  that  life  possible.  The  article  declares  that  a  viola- 
tion of  the  honor  system  is  heresy  against  college  spirit,  and  that 
the  destruction  of  the  system  would  mean  striking  at  the  heart  of 
Wesleyan. 

Another  of  the  healthy  signs  of  college  life  is  the  character  of 
the  men  whom,  in  our  best  colleges,  the  undergraduates  instinct- 
ively choose  as  presidents  of  the  college  body,  as  class  presidents, 
as  athletic  captains,  and  in  general  as  leaders.  With  rare  excep- 
tions undergraduate  leaders  are  straightforward,  manly  fellows, 
who  personally  shrink  from  any  kind  of  meanness  and  who  join 
the  President  and  Faculty  in  honest  partnership  for  the  good  of 
their  fellow  students  and  the  college.  In  the  regulation  of  their 
community  affairs  it  is  far  better  to  hold  the  students  responsible. 
Thereby,  in  putting  some  civic  duty  for  the  college  upon  the 
undergraduates,  the  college  is  training  future  citizens  who  will 
later  be  able  and  willing  to  exercise  leadership  in  civic  affairs. 

Misleading  as  the  predominance  of  athletics  in  the  college  may 
be,  bad  as  the  management  of  college  athletics  has  often  been,  the 
fact  remains  that  in  athletics  lies  a  saving  power.  Training  means 
regularity  and  clean  life.  Nor  can  we  afford  to  lose  the  lessons  of 
self-control,  concentrated  attention,  prompt  and  vigorous  action, 
and  instant  and  implicit  obedience.  Steadily  the  standard  of 
honor  in  all  intercollegiate  contests  is  rising.  Undergraduates 
exhibit  and  demand  to-day  a  higher  degree  of  true  sportsmanship 
than  ever  before.  While  formerly  too  often  intercollegiate  con- 
tests were  held  at  the  expense  of  manhood  and  morals,  to-day  col- 
lege sport  is  the  builder  of  intellect  and  character.  The  contests 
supply  an  element  of  zest  and  enthusiasm  to  the  student  life,  they 
create  and  foster  a  healthful  college  spirit,  a  needed  esprit  de  corps. 


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62     INSTALLATION    OF   PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

The  problem  is  to  secure  intercollegiate  rivalry  enough  to  foster 
the  right  college  spirit  in  the  right  measure,  while  at  the  same 
time  exalting  and  holding  fast  the  main  objects  of  college  life — 
scholarship  and  service.  None  of  the  major  sports  is  it  wise  to 
abolish.  They  are  too  valuable.  The  responsibility  is  upon  the 
faculties  to  control  them.  This  a  little  old-fashioned  courage  can 
do.  At  Wesleyan  no  student  is  allowed  to  represent  the  college 
in  more  than  two  of  the  major  organizations  in  any  college  year, 
nor  on  any  two  that  are  in  progress  at  the  same  time  of  the  year. 

The  only  way  in  which  we  can  make  men  out  of  the  boys  who 
come  to  college  is  in  some  form  or  other  to  give  them  opportunity 
in  which  to  work  out  freely  what  is  in  them.  The  product  of  the 
college  in  which  prescription  and  paternalism  undertake  to  shape 
the  life  of  the  undergraduates  will  be  a  lot  of  cossets.  The  stu- 
dents should  have  an  intellectual,  physical,  and  social  life,  which 
they  themselves  earnestly  and  enthusiastically  and  freely  make  as 
their  own.  Most  students  come  to  college  with  high  purposes, 
with  character  righteousness-directed,  and  determined  to  improve 
their  unusual  opportunities.  Life  in  such  an  atmosphere  is  the 
best  life  itself,  and  is  also  the  best  preparation  for.  life. 

The  education  that  forgets  God  omits  its  major  premise.  Nor 
by  this  do  I  mean  that  moral  and  religious  instruction  should  be 
separated  from  other  instruction.  Indeed,  the  ultimate  aims  of 
religion  and  education  are  the  same — both  seek  to  call  out  the 
whole  man  in  his  harmonious  development.  The  spirit  of  catho- 
licity is  also  common  to  both — neither  at  its  best  has  use  for  seg- 
mental  half  truths;  each  demands  globed  truth.  Extra-college 
leaders  of  young  men  like  Mott  and  Speer  unite  with  those  who 
are  engaged  in  college  work  in  the  conviction  that  the  power  of 
Christianity  among  students  is  immensely  increasing.  This  is 
easily  understood  when  we  recall  that  conviction  and  ideals  are 
the,  chief est  results  of  a  true  education,  and  that  the  supreme  per- 
sons and  convictions  and  ideals  are  Christian.  Nothing  so  thor- 
oughly enfranchises  the  intellect  as  personal  faith  in  and  loyalty 
to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  A  favorite  word  with  Christ  was 
"truth."  Had  love  and  power  been  the  only  great  words  of  Christ, 
one  might  have  held  that  He  disparaged  intellect.  But  when  you 
hear  Him  declaring,  "I  am  the  truth,"  you  hear  Him  claiming  to 
be  Lord  of  the  intellect;  and  truth,  born  in  the  intellect,  takes 
the  whole  character  within  its  grip.  Education  has  ever  adorned 


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Christianity  with  its  strength,  and  Christianity  in  its  turn  has 
crowned  education  with  its  unfading  glories.  Christ  must  be 
placed  in  the  very  centre  of  the  intellectual  life  if  its  highest  possi- 
bilities are  to  be  realized.  When  He  who  is  the  Truth  is  so 
enthroned  truths  will  adjust  themselves  to  one  another  in  their 
proper  relations.  His  voice  speaks  to  students  down  the  centuries, 
"Know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free."  The  stu- 
dent demanding  a  genuine,  rational,  practical  religion  is  responsive 
to  this  revelation  of  the  divine  life  in  the  human  soul.  The  verac- 
ity of  science  has  instilled  in  him  hatred  for  ignorance,  passion, 
and  untruthfulness,  and  he  refuses  to  accept  as  religion  that  which 
does  not  develop  transparency  of  thought  and  purpose,  impar- 
tiality of  judgment,  and  sincerity  of  speech  and  action.  While  he 
is  generally  not  inclined  to  much  profession  of  piety  and  not  easy 
to  shape  into  the  earlier  type  of  expressed  discipleship,  he  is 
remarkably  responsive  to  the  call  for  service.  Multitudes  of  col- 
lege men  are  profoundly  stirred  by  a  sense  of  social  responsibility 
and  a  passion  for  social  justice. 

Historically,  there  is  a  profound  interdependence  between  the 
College  and  the  Church.  John  Harvard  and  Abraham  Pierson,  and 
Tennent  and  Wheelock,  and  Kirkland  and  Willbur  Fisk  were  men 
whose  idea  was  elementally  Christian.  This  vital  relation  is  larger 
than  any  direct  ecclesiastical  control.  The  college  idea  has  been 
thoroughly  Christian;  and  so  may  it  ever  be.  Yet,  intensely 
religious  as  was  the  spirit  in  which  our  colleges  were  founded,  it 
was  not  a  spirit  of  narrow  sectarianism.  The  charter  of  1831  of 
Wesleyan  University  provides  that  "no  president,  professor,  or 
other  officer  shall  be  made  ineligible  for  or  by  reason  of  any  reli- 
gious tenets  which  he  may  profess,  nor  be  compelled,  by  any 
by-law  or  otherwise,  to  subscribe  to  any  religious  test  whatever." 
The  college  must  "seek  the  truth  where'er  'tis  found."  Thus 
only  can  it  be  loyal  to  the  Great  Teacher  who  is  the  Truth. 
Character,  which  is  "reason  schooled  to  think  hard  and  straight 
into  the  ultimate  constructive  standards  of  duty,  and  obediently 
to  choose  them  with  all  their  enduring  implications,"  makes  men 
and  nations,  and  its  salvations  are  more  than  knowledge.  To  the 
college  which  maintains  that  "the  fear  of  the  Lord  is  the  beginning 
of  wisdom,"  the  nation  must  look  for  its  leaders. 


THE  CONFERRING  OF  HONORARY 
DEGREES 


THE  CONFERRING  OF  HONORARY 
DEGREES 

/CANDIDATES  for  the  honorary  degrees  of  Doctor  of 
V^<  Divinity  and  Doctor  of  Humane  Letters  were  presented 
by  Professor  M.  B.  Crawford,  and  candidates  for  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws  by  Professor  C.  T.  Winchester.  President 
.Shanklin,  by  the  authority  of  the  University,  conferred  degrees 
in  the  following  terms : 

DOCTOR  OF  DIVINITY 

Richard  Watson  Cooper:  Successful  teacher  of  English 
Literature,  President  of  a  college  forever  enshrined  in  my  heart, 
because  of  your  earnest  and  efficient  service  in  the  Christian  min- 
istry, because  of  your  eloquence  as  a  preacher  and  your  ability  in 
practical  affairs,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity. 

Thomas  Nicholson:  Because  of  your  eminent  service  as  an 
-enthusiastic  teacher,  a  successful  college  President,  and  especially 
because  of  your  inspiring  leadership  of  the  educational  interests 
of  a  great  church,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity. 

George  William  Knox :  Preacher,  missionary,  wise  and  trusted 
teacher  of  perfect  vision,  who  "revels  in  the  battleground  for  new 
and  living  thought,"  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity. 

DOCTOR  OF   HUMANE  LETTERS 

Ashley  Horace  Thorndike:  Your  scholarly  and  successful 
record  as  an  undergraduate  was  an  earnest  of  your  continued 
development  and  your  success  in  your  chosen  lofty  vocation. 
Wesleyan  will  always  be  your  own  "to  have  and  to  hold,  to  love 
and  to  cherish."  It  gives  me  pleasure  to  admit  you  to  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Humane  Letters. 

DOCTOR  OF  LAWS 

James  Hampton  Kirkland:  Cultured  son  of  the  South,  gifted 
with  eloquence,  with  insight,  with  high  administrative  talents 
which  have  for  years  been  given  to  the  upbuilding  of  Vanderbilt 

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68     INSTALLATION    OF   PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

University,  rejoicing  in  your  great  work  which  makes  for  the 
welfare  of  our  whole  country,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws. 

Richard  Cockburn  Maclaurin:  World-trained  scholar,  clear 
thinker,  investigator,  rarely  gifted  teacher,  I  admit  you  to  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Samuel  Hart:  For  your  fidelity  to  the  work  of  the  Christian 
ministry,  for  your  accurate  scholarship,  for  your  service  in  the 
cause  of  a  great  church,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws. 

George  Harris :  Both  a  distinguished  son  and  the  President  of 
Amherst  College,  eloquent  preacher,  forceful  writer,  efficient  ad- 
ministrator, I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Melancthon  Woolsey  Stryker:  President  and  second  founder 
of  Hamilton  College,  embodiment  of  those  fine  and  firm  things 
for  which  stands  the  college  whose  colors  are  the  continental 
blue  and  buff,  scholar,  teacher,  writer,  preacher,  administrator, 
lover  of  knowledge  for  its  own  sake,  it  affords  me  rare  pleasure 
to  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Harry  Augustus  Garfield :  Possessor  of  that  fine  culture  which 
is  the  product  of  the  best  mental  discipline  and  of  the  noblest 
ideals,  brilliant  teacher  of  political  science,  I  admit  you  to  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Matthew  Henry  Buckham:  Primate  of  American  higher  edu- 
cation, ennobling  human  character  with  your  own  lofty  purpose 
and,  above  all  things,  loving  and  living  the  truth,  I  admit  you  to 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Ernest  Fox  Nichols:  Leader  of  research  in  experimental 
physics,  teacher  of  indomitable  physical  vigor  and  intellectual  in- 
sight, I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

William  Herbert  Perry  Faunce:  Distinguished  son,  and  now 
the  honored  President,  of  the  institution  that  gave  the  first 
President,  Willbur  Fisk,  to  Wesleyan  University,  in  recognition 
of  your  deep  and  broad  and  genuine  scholarship  and  your  emi- 
nently successful  administration  of  your  Alma  Mater,  I  admit 
you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

William  Burt:  From  your  youth  a  member  of  this  society  of 
scholars,  consecrated  missionary,  ecclesiastical  statesman  whose 
work  for  humanity  has  been  graciously  recognized  by  Eu- 
ropean rulers,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 


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Daniel  Ayres  Goodsell :  Reverend  and  thoughtful  seer,  servant 
and  inspiring  preacher  of  righteousness,  scholar  and  litterateur,  I 
admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Elmer  Ellsworth  Brown:  Clear-brained  and  tireless,  because 
of  your  scholarship,  your  accuracy,  and  your  patient  fidelity  as 
head  of  the  great  work  of  the  government  in  education,  I  admit 
you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

Elihu  Root:  Jurist,  constructive  statesman,  Secretary  of  War, 
Secretary  of  State,  envoy  of  good  faith  and  good  will  amo.ng  the 
nations,  Senator  from  the  State  of  New  York,  and  in  all  these 
relations  clear-sighted,  just,  patriotic,  a  trusted  leader  of  the 
people,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

James  Schoolcraft  Sherman :  For  twenty  years  member  of  Con- 
gress, Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  learned  in  law,  elo- 
quent in  speech,  leader  in  statecraft,  standing  foursquare  to  life's 
exactions  and  awards,  I  admit  you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws. 

William  Howard  Taft:  From  youth  accepting  the  ordination 
of  duty,  teacher  of  law,  jurist,  President  of  the  Philippine  Com- 
mission, Secretary  of  War,  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  United 
States,  your  life  given  to  big  thoughts,  to  wide  sympathies,  to 
determinative,  aggressive,  and  triumphant  activities,  thus  en- 
nobling the  ideas  and  the  ideals  of  the  true  college  man,  I  admit 
you  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

In  the  name  of  this  society  of  scholars,  I  declare  that  you  are 
entitled  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  pertaining  to  your  several 
degrees,  and  that  your  names  are  to  be  forever  borne  on  the  roll 
of  its  honorary  members. 


PROGRAMME  OF  THE  PRESENTATION  OF 
DELEGATES 


I 


PROGRAMME 

Of  the  Formal  Presentation  of  Dele- 
gates to  the  President  of  the 
University  and  to  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States 

FAYERWEATHER   GYMNASIUM,  3    P.   M. 
Music — Cavatina  *  Raf 


Brief  Addresses 

William  Herbert  Perry  Faunce,  D.D.,LL.D., 
President  of  Brown  University 

The  Honorable  Elmer  Ellsworth  Brown, 
Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  Commissioner  of  Edu- 
cation of  the  United  States 


Music — Minuet  Boccberini 


Roll  Call  and  Presentation  of  Delegates 


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ADDRESSES  AT  THE  PRESENTATION  OF 
DELEGATES 


WILLIAM  HERBERT  PERRY  FAUNCE,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
President  of  Brown  University 

BY  appointment  of  those  who  order  this  happy  festival,  I  have 
been  requested  to  present  to  the  President  of  Wesleyan 
University  and  to  the  President  of  the  United  States  this  distin- 
guished company  of  scholars,  who  have  come  from  all  parts  of 
this  land  and  from  Europe,  bearing  their  gifts — the  invisible  gifts 
of  steadfast  faith,  of  unquenchable  hope,  of  earnest  God-speed  to 
the  old  college  and  the  new  administration. 

The  eastern  colleges,  especially  those  of  New  England,  are  more 
individual  and  individualistic  in  temper  than  those  of  any  other 
section  of  this  country.  They  came  into  existence  at  various  times 
and  under  various  impulses  during  the  space  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty  years.  None  of  them  were  made  to  order ;  they  are,  most  of 
them,  not  the  result  of  any  legislative  enactment,  not  the  result  of 
a  single  wealthy  benefactor,  not  the  offspring  of  any  single  school 
of  philosophy  or  of  any  one  ecclesiastical  body.  They  are,  rather, 
indigenous  to  our  soil;  they  have  grown  as  our  pines  and  hem- 
locks grow,  thrusting  their  mighty  roots  into  their  native  ground, 
every  year  adding  new  rings  to  their  girth  and  new  diameters  to 
their  shadow.  It  might  be  supposed,  then,  that  these  institutions 
would  stand  apart,  if  not  in  distrust  and  suspicion,  at  least  in 
academic  isolation  and  peculiarity. 

But,  whatever  may  have  been  true  decades  ago,  to-day  these 
eastern  colleges  constitute  a  sympathetic  and  genuinely  coopera- 
tive fraternity.  Their  presidents  have  never  allowed  any  shadow 
to  come  between  them.  In  an  observation  of  twenty  years  I  have 
never  known  any  two  college  presidents  to  have  a  genuine  mis- 
understanding. The  Nestor  of  us  all,  Charles  W.  Eliot — who 
because  of  his  recent  retirement  is  absent  to-day  for  the  first  time 
in  forty  years  from  any  great  academic  festival  in  New  England 
— has  always  been  lavish  in  placing  his  rich  experience  at  the 
service  of  the  youngest  novice  in  collegiate  administration.  These 
college  faculties  are  in  constant  consultation  and  correspondence, 
and  it  is  not  unusual  for  a  teacher  in  one  faculty  to  lecture  for  a 

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term,  or  even  for  a  year,  in  the  faculty  of  another  college.  Our 
students  meet  constantly  in  honorable  rivalry  on  the  athletic  field 
and  in  the  forum  of  oratory  and  debate.  Our  alumni  mingle  in 
all  the  pursuits  of  modern  life,  and  frequently  a  man's  closest 
friends  are  found  among  the  graduates  of  some  other  institution. 
Therefore,  though  no  legal  pact  binds  these  colleges,  though  there 
be  no  "solemn  league  and  covenant,"  no  parchment  bond  to  hold 
us  together,  we  have  already  attained  that  time  of  which  William 
Watson  sang — if  I  may  change  a  single  word  in  his  flowing 
verse : 

The  coming  of  that  morn  divine 
When  colleges  shall  as  forests  grow, 

Wherein  the  oak  hates  not  the  pine, 
Nor  beeches  wish  the  cedars  woe ; 

But  all  in  their  unlikeness  blend 

Confederate  to  one  golden  end.  (Applause.) 

And  so,  in  the  radiant  sunshine  of  this  Indian  summer  day,  the 
"golden  end"  of  all  our  colleges  becomes  plainer  than  ever  before 
to  each  one  of  us. 

We  bring  you,  sir,  from  these  various  institutions  to-day  our 
greeting  and  our  good  wishes.  We  recognize  the  fact  that  another 
President  of  a  New  England  college  has  come  from  service  in  the 
West.  Not  all  of  the  wise  men  come  out  of  the  East.  New  Eng- 
land has  been  for  decades  giving  her  best  brain  and  brawn  to  the 
West,  and  it  is  now  about  time  for  her  to  make  some  reprisals  and 
secure  some  payment  in  return.  There  is  more  of  New  England 
in  some  parts  of  Minnesota  and  Oregon  than  in  some  parts  of  Con- 
necticut, Rhode  Island,  and  Massachusetts.  More  and  more  we 
shall  look  for  men  to  come  from  where  New  England's  influence 
dominates  the  farther  West,  to  help  us  here  in  the  solution  of  our 
weighty  problems. 

We  recognize  also  the  contribution  of  Wesleyan  University  to 
the  life  of  the  nation.  From  your  chajrs  of  chemistry  and  geology 
have  steadily  come  contributions  to  modern  science.  From  your 
chair  of  English  literature  has  come  a  voice  that  has  charmed 
thousands,  East  and  West.  From  your  chair  of  philosophy  are 
constantly  made  contributions  penetrating  and  illuminating  to  our 
modern  thinking.  And  from  the  work  of  other  chairs  that  I  might 
mention  it  is  obvious  that  Wesleyan  University  is  nobly  serving 
the  country  at  large.  (Applause.) 


WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY  79 

We  rejoice  also  to  recognize  that  here  the  profound  religious 
impulse,  in  which  our  eastern  colleges  were  almost  all  of  them 
founded,  has  not  been  quenched  but  still  shines  bright  and  clear. 
The  perpetuation  of  that  impulse  from  generation  to  generation 
depends  chiefly  not  on  legal  requirement,  not  on  charter  provision ; 
it  depends  upon  the  men  that  you  have  here  as  teachers.  Because 
of  those  men  we  believe  that  character  will  never  here  be  held 
subordinate  to  mere  curiosity,  nor  students  forgotten  in  the  pur- 
suit of  study.  We  rejoiced  to  hear  your  words  of  this  morning 
affirming  that  religious  aspiration  is  a  permanent  factor  in  the 
civilization  of  the  world,  and  in  that  great  affirmation  we  unani- 
mously and  heartily  join. 

And  in  the  presence  of  our  Chief  Magistrate  surely  we  cannot 
avoid  saying  that  all  these  various  colleges  gain  to-day  a  deeper 
conception  of  their  duty  to  the  republic  of  which  they  are  a  part. 
We  thank  the  President  of  the  United  States  for  his  presence  here. 
It  is  not  simply  a  tribute  to  one  college,  but  to  all  colleges ;  to  his 
faith  that  these  colleges  are  the  organs  in  some  sense  of  our  na- 
tional life,  and  are  making  some  contribution  to  the  solution  of 
our  national  problems. 

We  are  told  at  times  that  the  perils  that  confront  us  are  enough 
to  produce  pessimism ;  that  all  around  are  men  of  narrow  horizon, 
of  darkened  minds  or  anarchistic  ideals ;  and  men  say :  "What 
shall  we  do  ?  Shall  we  shut  off  immigration  and  shut  up  some  men 
of  our  own  country  who  are  anarchistic  in  their  ideals?"  My 
friends,  ought  we  not  to  find  the  solution  here  ?  Shall  we  not  for 
every  man  of  limited  view,  of  anarchistic  temperament,  import 
from  our  colleges  into  the  great  centres  of  population  ten  men  who 
see  life  steadily,  who  have  just  and  true  ideas  of  government  by 
the  people  and  for  the  people  and  of  the  people?  Shall  we  not, 
for  every  man  who  fails  to  appreciate  his  country,  graduate  ten 
men  who  know  its  history,  who  know  what  it  cost  the  fathers,  and 
who  are  willing  to  live  for  it  as  bravely  as  the  fathers  died  for  it? 
(Applause.) 

When  a  certain  man — not  altogether  unknown  to  you,  sir  [turn- 
ing to  President  Taft] — was  a  police  commissioner  in  New  York 
city  years  ago,  he  read  a  certain  book  fresh  from  the  press,  en- 
titled "How  the  Other  Half  Lives."  At  once  he  determined  to 
seek  out  the  writer.  He  went  down  into  the  lower  part  of  Manhat- 
tan ;  he  climbed  the  creaking  staircase  in  an  old  tenement  house  to 


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the  door  of  a  hall  bedroom,  and  knocked.  There  was  no  response ; 
no  one  was  there.  He  took  out  a  visiting  card  and  simply  wrote, 
"Have  read  your  book  and  came  to  help,"  and  signed  his  name, 
"Theodore  Roosevelt."  (Applause  and  cheers.) 

In  the  spirit  of  that  motto,  sir,  you  are  teaching  us  how  to  live. 
In  the  spirit  of  that  card  let  us  teach  the  graduates  of  our  colleges 
to  go  forth  from  their  Alma  Mater,  saying:  "We  have  read  the 
books ;  we  have  read  the  history,  the  literature,  the  philosophy, 
the  sciences,  and  now  we  go  forth,  not  to  form  an  intellectual 
aristocracy  that  shall  look  down  upon  the  average  man,  but  to 
form  a  great  army  for  truth  and  for  righteousness.  We  have  read, 
we  have  studied,  and  now  we  come  to  help." 

With  this  attitude,  with  this  pledge  for  ourselves  and  hope  for 
our  students  we,  the  colleges  of  this  country,  bring  you  greeting 
and  good  wishes,  and  pray  that  in  and  through  this  occasion  the 
ideals  that  shine  so  bright  before  us  may  be  carried  into  all  the 
institutions  of  learning  in  America.  (Applause.) 

THE  HONORABLE  ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN, 
PH.D.,  LL.D. 

Commissioner  of  Education  of  the  United  States 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  PRESIDENT  SHANKLIN, 
OFFICERS  AND  MEMBERS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  : 

IT  is  a  pleasant  duty  which  your  courtesy  has  devolved  upon  me, 
that  of  bringing  greetings  which  may  in  a  measure  represent 
the  good  will  of  educational  institutions  throughout  this  land.  The 
fellowship  of  universities  is  a  rising  influence  in  our  educational 
world.  It  is  furthered  by  such  gracious  hospitality  as  you  have 
extended  to  us,  your  friends  and  guests,  on  this  notable  occasion 
in  your  history.  We  are  glad  that  we  have  come.  We  are  glad, 
Mr.  President,  to  be  here  as  witnesses  of  the  dawn  of  your  admin- 
istration. We  shall  go  away  refreshed  with  a  new  sense  of  unity 
in  educational  endeavor.  And  we. hope  that  a  like  sense  may 
remain  with  you,  to  lighten  somewhat  the  burden  of  your  great 
responsibilities  and  to  brace  your  spirit  in  time  of  doubt  or  diffi- 
culty. 

You  have  come  to  your  high  office  when  we  in  this  country  are 
on  the  topmost  crest  of  a  wave  of  academic  unrest.  While  we  con- 


WESLEYAN   UNIVERSITY  81 

gratulate  Wesleyan  University  on  its  notable  history  and  on  the 
auspicious  beginning  of  a  new  administration,  we  congratulate  you 
particularly  upon  the  time  of  your  entrance  upon  your  great  under- 
taking. 

How  shall  the  republic  meet  the  needs  of  its  citizenship  as 
regards  the  higher  education  ?  This  question,  as  old  as  the  repub- 
lic itself,  is  now  pressed  with  new  urgency,  when  our  rapid  in- 
crease in  population  is  met  with  a  still  more  rapid  increase  in 
college  attendance,  and  the  scope  of  collegiate  instruction  is 
widened  past  all  human  experience.  It  presses  itself  upon  you  in 
this  hour. 

Ours  is  a  republic  that  prizes  variety  as  well  as  unity.  It  does 
not  seek  to  establish  one  only,  approved  and  registered,  type  of 
public  education.  Every  institution  has  a  part  of  its  own  to  play, 
has  an  enrichment  of  its  own  to  add  to  our  educational  wealth. 
May  we  not  look  to  an  institution  such  as  yours,  having  affiliations 
with  a  great  religious  body,  to  cast  a  new  illumination  upon  one  of 
the  oldest,  the  most  difficult,  the  most  profound  questions  of  our 
civilization,  the  question  as  to  the  vital  and  ultimate  relations 
between  religion  and  righteousness  and  the  relation  of  education 
to  both  ?  But,  since  the  first  work  of  all  educational  institutions  is 
to  educate,  and  since  our  people  may  not  rest  with  any  cultivation 
less  than  the  best,  your  work,  may  we  suggest,  is,  after  all,  essen- 
tially a  part  of  the  one  great  work  of  American  education — to 
make  continuously  for  our  people  an  education  abreast  of  that  of 
the  foremost  nations  of  the  earth,  and  in  its  own  peculiar  excel- 
lence one  that  shall  lead  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

Our  wave  of  discussion  cannot  pass  like  a  wave  far  out  at  sea, 
leaving  no  sign  of  its  rise  and  fall.  It  is  a  wave  that  beats  upon 
.the  shore,  beats  upon  established  institutions,  and  it  will  leave  its 
mark  upon  them  in  changes  that  may  not  "sink  again  into  sleep." 
Everywhere  there  is  expectation  of  improvement  in  our  academic 
life.  We  doubt  not  that  Wesleyan  University  and  you,  her  Presi- 
dent, are  to  have  an  honorable  part  in  the  making  of  such  improve- 
ment. May  you  enter  upon  your  new  work  as  a  strong  man 
rejoices  to  run  a  race,  and  continue  in  it  prosperously  and  happily 
till  you  shall  finish  your  course  with  unabated  joy.  (Applause.) 


82     INSTALLATION   OF    PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

ROLL  CALL  AND  PRESENTATION  OF  DELEGATES 

As  the  name  of  each  delegate  was  called  Professor  Andrew 
Campbell  Armstrong,  as  Marshal,  announced  his  name  and  title, 
and  presented  him  to  President  Shanklin  and  to  President  Taft. 

[For  list  of  delegates,  see  page  125.] 


SPEECHES  AT  THE  DINNER 


SPEECHES 

At  the  Dinner  to  Delegates,  Invited 
Guests,  Trustees  and  Faculty 
of  the  University 

FISK   HALL,   6    P.   M. 

Professor  C.  T.  Winchester,  L.H.D.,  Toastmaster 


PROFESSOR  CALEB  THOMAS  WINCHESTER 
Toastmaster 

I  ACCOUNT  it  a  privilege  and  an  honor  that  I  have  been  asked 
to  preside  at  these  exercises  which  close  what  has  certainly 
been  one  of  the  most  memorable  and  auspicious  days  in  the  history 
of  Wesleyan  University.  But  I  must  be  pardoned  if  I  feel  some 
misgivings  at  standing  here  to  preside  on  an  occasion  like  this — 
not  on  the  ground  of  personal  modesty,  by  which,  I  believe,  I  am 
not  overmuch  troubled,  but,  rather,  because  I  fear  this  place  might 
be  more  fitly  occupied  by  a  younger  man.  I  do  not,  indeed,  own 
to  any  venerable  years,  and  I  promptly  resent  the  respect  paid  to 
age.  But  I  gather  from  the  copious  discussion  concerning  the 
American  college  in  the  press  and  on  the  platform,  during  the  last 
five  or  six  months,  that  we  are  at  the  beginning  of  something  like 
a  new  era;  that  the  college  is  going  to  do  something  that  we 
haven't  been  doing,  or  to  do  something  that  we  have  been  doing 
and  do  it  better.  The  young  men  have  the  floor  and  "nothing  is 
to  be  just  as  it's  been  before."  It  were,  perhaps,  better,  then,  that 
this  place  should  not  be  occupied  by  one  who,  whatever  his  actual 
years,  sometimes  begins  to  fear  that  he  may  be  accounted  a  mem- 
ber of  that  Old  Guard — of  whom  there  are  always  one  or  two  in 
every  college  faculty — who  can  say  of  college  presidents,  "They 
may  come  and  they  may  go,  but  we  go  on  forever" ;  who  die  but 
never  resign ;  who  stand  at  their  post  and  calmly  await  the  final 
dismissal  of — a  Carnegie  pension ;  which  differs,  by  the  way,  from 
the  dismissal  of  death  chiefly  in  that  to  be  well  prepared  for  it  you 
must  not  be  too  religious. 

I  am  sure  I  shall  not  be  accused  of  any  lack  of  sympathy  with 
movements  of  reform  or  progress  in  our  college  life ;  least  of  all 
of  any  hesitation  heartily  to  second  the  policy  laid  down  to-day  by 
my  own  honored  President.  But  perhaps  some  of  us  have  been  a 
little  too  much  at  ease  in  Zion.  We  have  been  in  love  with  our 
work ;  we  have  been  in  love  with  our  men ;  we  have  sometimes 
blindly  fancied  that  some  of  them  really  found  almost  as  much 
interest  in  the  lecture-room  as  on  the  athletic  field ;  and  in  the 
company  of  these  young,  eager  fellows  and  of  those  great  im- 

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mortals  in  literature  and  science  who  can  never  grow  old,  we  have 
not  marked  the  progress  of  the  years.  In  our  content  we  have 
been,  perhaps,  a  little  too  distrustful  of  the  alleged  decay  of  schol- 
arship in  the  average  college  student ;  too  forgetful  that  all  about 
us  the  woods  are  full  of  Ph.  D.'s,  every  one  of  whom  knows  some- 
thing better  than  we  can  know  anything,  and  all  of  whom  together 
constitute  a  corps  of  specialized  omniscience. 

But,  at  all  events,  we  are  beginning  to  show  a  little  healthy  dis- 
content. I  heard  the  other  day  of  a  man  who  after  long  years  of 
membership  in  a  Christian  Science  church  lapsed  into  plain  Chris- 
tian, and  on  being  asked  the  cause  of  his  change,  replied,  "Well, 

you  see,  the  fact  is,  I  got  tired  of  being  so  d d  happy  all  the 

time."  Some  of  us  occupants  of  college  chairs  may  be  showing  a 
similar  hopeful  restlessness.  At  all  events,  the  wide  discussion  of 
college  work  and  methods  at  the  present  time  should  be  proof 
enough  that  our  colleges  are  not  in  any  state  of  inert  indifference. 
In  fact,  I  venture  to  think  there  is  no  real  decline  in  the  character 
and  value  of  the  work  done  in  our  colleges,  but  that  their  present 
position  is  only  one  stage  in  the  process  of  healthy  readjustment  to 
new  conditions  through  which  the  American  college  has  been  pass- 
ing for  the  last  fifty  years.  We  have,  of  course,  many  problems 
arising  ever  new  out  of  these  changing  conditions — out  of  the 
larger  number  of  young  men  seeking  some  sort  of  higher  educa- 
tion, and  the  widely  differing  ranks  of  society  whence  they  come ; 
out  of  the  wonderful  broadening  of  the  field  of  knowledge ;  out  of 
the  difficulty  of  wisely  relating  general  culture  to  special  training, 
the  college  to  the  university — problems  enough,  doubtless.  I  do 
not  propose  to  enumerate  them,  still  less  to  discuss  them,  for  I  am 
cautioned  that  I  at  least  must  not  speak  more  than  five  minutes 
this  evening.  But  I  believe  that  as  in  the  past,  so  now,  and  so  in 
the  future,  whatever  our  changes  in  methods  and  subjects,  we  shall 
find  the  chief  motive  and  end  of  a  college  education  in  the  peren- 
nial love  of  learning  rather  than  in  the  special  training  for  prac- 
tice ;  and  that  always  the  real  teacher  will  find  or  make  real  stu- 
dents. Perhaps  we  make  too  much  of  the  difference  between 
what  we  call  cultural  and  what  we  call  practical  studies.  Any 
subject  that  thoroughly  enlists  the  intelligence  and  enthusiasm  of 
the  man  is  good  for  his  culture;  and,  on  the  other  hand,  those 
studies,  literary  or  philosophic,  that  seem  most  thoroughly  di- 
vorced from  practice  contribute  richly  to  that  reserve  of  personal 


WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY  89 

power  on  which  the  practical  efficiency  of  the  man  very  largely 
depends.  I  believe  that  the  engineer  who  is  at  home  with  his 
Shakespeare  or  his  Browning  is  not  only  a  broader  and  a  happier 
man  but  a  better  engineer.  We  may  be  sure  that  in  all  the  modi- 
fications of  our  college  system,  by  a  sort  of  natural  selection,  those 
forms  and  subjects  of  intellectual  training  will  survive  which  are 
found  most  useful,  not  merely  for  the  special  skill  of  a  craft  or 
profession,  but  for  the  broader  wisdom  of  life. 

I  take  it  that  all  our  colleges,  with  healthy  individual  differences, 
have  most  essential  interests  in  common ;  and  it  is  one  especial 
charm  and  profit  of  occasions  like  this,  that  they  emphasize  that 
community  of  interest,  and  by  the  comparison  of  views  and  meth- 
ods, strengthen  the  sense  of  fraternity  among  American  colleges. 
It  is  especially  fitting,  therefore,  that  I  should  call  first  upon  one 
who  may  justly  be  termed  the  dean  of  our  college  presidents, 
who  unites  with  the  vigor  and  forward  outlook  of  unchanging 
youth  the  wisdom  of  long  years,  when  "old  experience  doth  attain 
to  something  like  prophetic  strain."  I  have  the  honor  to  call  upon 
President  Matthew  H.  Buckham,  for  nearly  forty  years  the  hon- 
ored President  of  the  University  of  Vermont. 

PRESIDENT  MATTHEW  HENRY  BUCKHAM 

YOU  have  laid  a  heavy  burden  on  your  new  President,  and  I 
want  to  give  him  a  word  of  cheer.  First,  I  can  assure  him 
that  the  material  which  he  will  have  to  work  on,  and  work  with, 
is  all  that  he  could  wish,  and  is  as  good  as  the  best.  After  the  few 
are  retired  who  are  not  of  college  stuff,  the  student  body  in  any 
of  our  New  England  colleges  has,  implicitly  and  potentially,  the 
making  of  as  fine  intellectual  and  spiritual  manhood  as  any  body 
of  young  men  anywhere  found.  Under  good  inspiration  and  guid- 
ance, they  have  the  power  to  form  themselves  under  good  leader- 
ship, to  solve  their  own  serious  problems,  to  correct  their  own 
errors.  Under  such  inspiration  they  are  able,  for  instance,  to 
handle  this  grave  problem  of  athletics,  to  purge  out  of  it  whatever 
is  brutal  and  savage  and  to  retain  whatever  is  gymnastic  and  sana- 
tive. In  short,  Mr.  President,  you  and  your  Faculty  have  the 
opportunity  to  form  a  partnership  with  the  body  of  students  in 
everything  a  college  should  stand  for — a  partnership,  in  Burke's 
phrase,  in  every  virtue  and  in  all  perfection. 


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And,  next,  reen  forcing  what  has  been  more  than  once  said 
to-day,  I  counsel  you  to  note  as  a  fact  of  observation,  that  a  college 
of  moderate  size,  large  enough  to  furnish  the  variety  of  character 
which  is  one  important  source  of  education,  and  not  so  large  as  to 
prevent  general  acquaintance  with  one's  fellows — a  college  of  lim- 
ited curriculum,  which  undertakes  a  few  great  fundamental  dis- 
ciplines and  works  them  thoroughly,  and  which  especially  empha- 
sizes the  catechetic  method  of  instruction — that  such  a  college  has 
certain  advantages — I  do  not  say  all  advantages — over  institutions 
of  large  size  and  more  extensive  curricula,  for  training  in  scholar- 
ship and  efficiency,  so  that  it  has  become  almost  proverbial  that 
relatively  more  men  of  eminence  come  from  the  colleges  of  mod- 
erate size  than  from  the  great  universities — a  fact  which  has  been 
made  conspicuous  by  the  college  affiliation  of  the  men  composing 
the  brilliant  assemblage  of  scholars  and  jurists  and  statesmen  and 
divines,  gathered  for  this  great  scholastic  function  here  to-day. 

And,  finally,  the  one  condition  which  would  make  all  this  poten- 
tiality actual  is  the  loyal  and  cordial  and  persistent  support  of  all 
the  natural  friends  of  Wesleyan — of  its  own  family  and  nearest  of 
kin,  its  alumni,  of  course,  every  one  of  whom  should  consider  him- 
self a  trustee  of  the  university — and  also  its  near  of  kin,  even  its 
remote  kin,  everybody  who  has  any  tie,  whether  of  locality,  of  reli- 
gious sympathy,  of  intellectual  affinity,  of  social  attachment — 
every  one  who  receives  from,  or  owes  to,  Wesleyan,  any  spiritual 
influence  of  any  kind.  Any  institution  which,  like  Wesleyan,  can 
count  a  hundred  years  of  existence,  or  nearly  so,  has  some  dis- 
tinctive character  for  which  many  love  it.  Let  these  many  mani- 
fest their  love,  each  in  his  own  way,  and  success  is  assured.  And 
now  that  you  have  given  me,  Mr.  President  and  Trustees,  the  right 
to  share  with  you  all  the  good  things  that  shall  be  yours  hereafter, 
permit  me  to  say  that  we  of  Wesleyan  can  desire  no  better  augury 
for  the  new  administration  than  the  continuance  and  growth  and 
accumulation  of  this  splendid  spirit  of  loyalty  and  affection  for 
Alma  Mater,  her  new  President,  her  old  and  new  teachers,  and  all 
her  belongings  and  hopes  and  ideals,  which  has  made  this  day  high 
and  memorable. 

THE  TOASTMASTER  : 

Having  called  upon  one  of  the  oldest  of  our  college  presi- 
dents, may  I  now  call  upon  one  of  the  youngest.  We  are  happy 


WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY  91 

in  having  with  us  this  evening  a  gentleman — an  alumnus  of 
Wesleyan — who  had  already  won  distinction  as  an  excellent 
teacher  of  English  and  an  efficient  public  speaker  when  he  was 
elected  to  the  presidential  chair  which  President  Shanklin  had  just 
vacated.  I  know  he  will  expect  all  Wesleyan  men  to  deem  that  a 
most  honorable  and  difficult  position  to  fill ;  I  trust  he  will  pardon 
in  me  the  familiarity  of  old  acquaintance  if  I  say  his  case  reminds 
me  of  a  venerable  myth — with  a  difference.  It  is  related,  you 
remember,  that  a  very  worthy  but  somewhat  self-distrustful 
gentleman,  passing  out  of  this  life,  went — where  all  Wesleyan  men 
go — but  seemed  on  his  arrival  to  be  a  little  hesitant  and  appre- 
hensive. "What's  the  matter?"  said  a  celestial  companion.  "Well," 
he  replied,  "you  see  I  am  a  little  afraid  my  halo  doesn't  fit."  "O, 
yes,  it  does,"  said  the  other,  "and,  anyway,  you'll  soon  grow  to  it." 
We  can  pay  President  Cooper  no  higher  compliment  than  to  say 
we  have  learned  that  his  halo  already  fits.  President  Richard 
Watson  Cooper,  D.D.,  President  of  the  Upper  Iowa  University. 

PRESIDENT  RICHARD  WATSON  COOPER 

IT  was  suggested  to  me  that  I  speak  on  the  subject,  "What  a 
College  Professor  Thinks  of  the  Presidency."  The  only 
reason  why  a  college  professor  with  any  love  for  his  profession 
hesitates  to  accept  the  presidency  of  a  college  is  the  fact 
that  the  presidency  of  our  universities  is  deemed  commer- 
cial in  character,  while  a  professorship  is  altogether  literary. 
An  educational  institution  is  always  in  debt,  unless  it  be  Chicago 
University,  or  it  is  in  need  of  money.  A  college  that  does  not 
step  over  the  bounds  of  its  income  is  not  awake  to  its  oppor- 
tunities. It  ought  to  be  pushing  the  limit  every  year.  The 
younger  institutions,  of  course,  are  inevitably  pushing  their  limits ; 
consequently,  the  president  of  such  an  institution  becomes  some- 
thing of  a  commercial  agent.  If  any  one  had  said  to  me  six  years 
ago  that  the  presidency  of  a  Methodist  college  in  need  of  funds 
might  be  open  to  me  I  should  have  said,  "No,  I  will  not  take  it, 
for  I  love  my  work  as  a  teacher."  And  even  now  I  am  going  to 
continue,  if  I  can,  to  be  something  of  an  instructor  to  the  students 
in  the  institution  over  which  I  am  to  preside  as  President.  But 
the  commercial  problem  is  there ;  it  is  everywhere,  whether  it  be 
the  presidency  of  Chicago  University,  or  the  head  of  the  university 


92     INSTALLATION    OF    PRESIDENT    SHANKLIN 

of  a  great  western  State  where  the  President  must  expect  to  work 
politically  in  the  Legislature  for  the  funds  he  needs.  He  must 
depend  upon  winning  men  who  have  means,  or  the  alumni  who 
have  means,  or  the  Legislature  which  commands  the  means,  to  the 
support  of  his  institution.  He  never  can  expect  to  get  from  under 
that  problem.  He  continually  finds  himself  in  the  condition  of  a 
young  woman  who  married  recently,  to  whom  her  husband  said : 
"Jeanie,  our  income  is  only  just  so  much ;  we  must  live  within  it. 
Now,  here  is  a  little  red-covered  book  I  have  bought  for  you ;  I 
want  you  to  put  on  this  side  your  receipts  and  on  the  other  side  your 
expenses."  At  the  end  of  the  month  the  little  housewife  brought 
the  book  with  rejoicing  and  said :  "Charlie,  I  have  done  just  what 
you  told  me  to  do.  Here  it  is :  'From  Lovey,  $75.'  "'  On  the  other 
side  she  had  written,  in  neat  hand,  with  great  care,  "Spent  it  all." 
(  Laughter. ) 

A  college  presidency  is  not  an  easy  task  to  undertake.  Men 
revel  in  the  delights  of  a  professorship  forever.  The  college  pro- 
fessor owns  his  job ;  it  is  the  one  occupation  that  has  permanency ; 
he  knows  that  it  is  his,  and  that  generation  after  generation  of 
students  will  come  to  him,  and  there  need  be  no  anxiety  on  his 
mind,  even  about  getting  them.  But  the  college  president  has  a 
different  problem  to  solve.  He  must  win  the  students ;  he  must 
keep  them  in  good  humor  after  he  has  them,  and  even  after  they 
graduate ;  he  must  win  the  faculty  into  hearty  cooperation  in  mat- 
ters of  discipline  and  curriculum ;  he  must  win  the  trustees  into 
letting  him  manage  the  institution  in  the  way  he  sees  fit.  These 
tasks,  varying  with  the  situation,  are  ever  appearing,  now  and 
then,  here  and  there.  And,  above  all  others,  one,  which  is  always 
present :  he  must  labor  in  every  way  possible  to  secure  the  funds 
with  which  to  run  the  institution  so  that  there  shall  be  no  deficit  at 
the  end  of  the  year,  but  an  ever-increasing  income  with  which  to 
enlarge  libraries,  laboratories,  and  salaries.  By  success  or  failure 
in  this  one  particular  he,  too,  often  rises  or  falls. 

How  different  these  tasks  from  the  delights  of  the  scholar  and 
of  the  man  of  letters !  At  the  installation  of  Professor  Wilson  as 
President  of  Princeton  University,  the  retiring  President  said  to 
him,  "It  may  be  pleasant  in  your  new  position  to  recall  that  you 
once  had  the  tastes  and  inclinations  of  the  scholar,  but  it  will  be 
only  a  recollection."  As  a  college  professor  he  may  be  a  lady's  man 
and  a  tender  moralist ;  he  must,  as  president,  be  a  man's  man  and 


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eschew  the  moralist's  pose  for  the  bolder  part  of  a  man  of  affairs. 
Tea  parties  are  no  longer  his  diversion ;  like  prayer  meetings,  they 
have  become  his  business.  And  yet  it  is  not  for  the  scholar  to 
scorn  the  office  of  president  or  spurn  his  tasks.  They  who  have 
breathed  the  spiritual  atmosphere  of  Tennyson  and  Browning,  or 
who  have  lined  themselves  with  the  men  of  courage  who  made  our 
intellectual  past,  scorn  no  office  and  spurn  no  task,  however  rug- 
ged, if  only  it  be  worthy.  Rather  in  the  spirit  of  Browning,  they 
"welcome  each  rebuff  that  turns  earth's  smoothness  rough."  He 
who  is  unwilling  to  accept  the  situation  as  he  finds  it  is  unworthy 
of  the  office  of  college  president.  (Applause.) 

THE  TOASTM ASTER: 

Most  of  us  who  occupy  professorial  chairs  couldn't  be  presi- 
dents if  we  would ;  and,  possibly,  some  few  wouldn't  if  they  could ; 
but  I  am  sure  we  are  all  glad  to  hear  thus  from  President  Cooper 
how  it  feels  when  the  professor  is  called  up  higher.  Yet  I  don't 
know  that  on  occasions  like  this  the  college  presidents  should  have 
it  all  their  own  way.  I  confess  to  a  certain  jealousy  for  my  own 
order,  and  a  wish  that  we  college  teachers  who  have  to  do  the 
work  might  have  somewhat  to  say  as  well  as  our  chiefs,  who  tell 
us  how  it  should  be  done.  It  is  therefore  with  special  satisfaction 
that  I  call  upon  a  college  professor  who,  by  his  accurate  scholar- 
ship, his  critical  literary  judgment,  and  his  gift  to  teach,  has 
already  won  high  place  in  his  profession,  Ashley  H.  Thorndike, 
L.H.D.,  Professor  of  English  in  Columbia  University. 


PROFESSOR  ASHLEY  HORACE  THORNDIKE 

I  APPRECIATE  Professor  Winchester's  desire  to  have  one 
representative  from  us  fellows  who  do  the  work  among  this 
galaxy  of  those  who  bear  the  titles  and  tell  us  how  to  do  it ;  but, 
somehow,  this  does  not  add  to  my  assurance,  for,  as  I  have  passed 
the  day  environed  by  this  decorated  train  of  dignitaries  and  lis- 
tened to  their  eloquence,  I  have  felt  my  trepidation  increasing.  It 
is  not  often  that  we  humble  professors  are  brought  so  close  to  the 
seats  of  the  mighty  as  we  are  to-day.  You  have  heard  a  great  deal 
about  the  dignity  of  teaching,  but  on  ordinary  occasions  we  have 
very  little  intercourse  with  college  presidents  except  when  we  visit 


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them  to  ask  for  an  increase  of  our  salaries,  and  those  interviews 
are  rarely  entirely  satisfactory. 

But  I  must  say  that  the  events  of  the  day  have  raised  my  estima- 
tion of  college  presidents  as  a  class.  I  do  not  know  that  they  ever 
appeared  to  me  to  better  advantage.  This  may  be  because  so  many 
of  those  here  are  new  at  the  job.  (Laughter.)  At  all  events, 
while  most  of  you  have  been  enjoying  and  admiring  the  presiden- 
tial train,  and  while  the  college  presidents  have  been  enjoying 
themselves,  I  have  been  coming  to  feel  like  a  lamb  led  to  the 
sacrifice,  before  the  high  priests.  You  have  seen  them  stalk  ma- 
jestically and  heard  them  roar.  I  am  in  the  lion's  den,  and  I  do 
not  feel  at  all  like  a  Daniel  or  a  Roosevelt.  (Laughter.) 

I  am  speaking,  however,  not  only  as  a  representative  of  this  down- 
trodden working  class,  but  also  in  a  quasi-presidential  capacity  my- 
self, for  I  come  as  a  delegate  from  the  President  and  the  Faculty 
of  Columbia  University  to  extend  their  hearty  congratulations  on 
Wesleyan's  installation  of  a  new  President  and  their  confident 
good  wishes  for  his  success.  And  as  I  have  come  from  that  great 
university  in  our  modern  Babylon  to  this  much-loved  college 
nestled  on  the  hillside  of  this  slumbrous  old  town,  if  differences 
between  the  two  have  come  to  my  mind,  still  I  have  thought  more 
of  their  resemblances,  of  their  common  aims,  of  their  sympathetic 
associations,  and  of  their  united  search  after  truth.  Many  a  stu- 
dent has  gone  from  one  to  the  other,  and  many  a  student  has 
learned  from  both  the  same  lessons  of  honest  work  and  unselfish 
ideals. 

I  am  here  also  at  my  old  Alma  Mater  to  receive  again  of  her 
bounty.  I  do  not  trust  myself  to  express  the  gratitude  which  I 
feel  at  the  honor  and  the  many  kind  words  that  have  come  to  me, 
but,  surely,  no  alumnus  has  better  cause  to-night  than  I  to  acclaim 
the  loyalty  and  the  affection  and  the  gratitude  with  which  the 
hearts  of  the  sons  of  old  Wesleyan  ever  beat  for  their  Alma  Mater. 
I  am  sure  that  our  new  President,  who  starts  so  auspiciously  on  an 
administration  which  we  believe  will  continue  so  happily,  will  find 
few  things  that  give  him  greater  joy  and  encouragement,  as  he 
goes  on,  than  the  warm  support  of  the  alumni  of  this  college.  I 
am  not  qualified  to  speak  for  the  whole  body  of  the  alumni,  but 
there  is  one  class  from  whom  I  should  like  to  bear  a  message — 
from  those  of  us  who  are  teachers  ourselves  and  who  take  an 
interest  in  Wesleyan,  not  only  for  our  associations  with  her,  but 


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because  of  the  duty  and  the  opportunity  she  has  in  the  field  of 
education,  in  which  we  are  also  toilers.  On  behalf  of  that  part  of 
the  alumni  I  should  like  to  assure  President  Shanklin  of  our  hearty 
sympathy  with  his  inaugural  message  this  morning  in  his  position 
that  this  college  ought  to  stand,  as  it  has  always  stood,  for  hard 
work  and  thorough  scholarship.  I  believe  that  this  is  the  reputa- 
tion which  Wesleyan  holds  to-day  among  all  the  colleges  of  this 
country — a  place  where  a  young  man  may  learn  to  study  hard  and 
where  he  may  learn  something  thoroughly.  This  is  the  reputation 
which  Wesleyan  has  won,  and  which  I  hope  it  may  always  main- 
tain. We  have  maintained  it  when  some  of  our  sister  colleges 
have  turned  to  short-cuts  to  education  and  have  admitted  danger- 
ous subterfuges;  and  we  maintain  it,  I  believe,  to-day,  when  in 
some  places  they  are  afraid  that  scholarship  is  giving  way  to  ath- 
leticism or  good-fellowship.  And  we  can  maintain  it  in  the  future 
as  we  have  in  the  past  only  by  keeping  here  at  Wesleyan  a  Faculty 
of  exceptional  ability  and  power.  There  is  no  other  way.  This 
business  of  teaching  is  no  child's  play.  It  cannot  be  done  by  any- 
one who  has  studied  a  little;  it  needs  full-grown  men  with  full- 
grown  minds  and  hearts. 

We  have  heard  several  times  to-day  some  appreciation  of  what 
Professor  Winchester  has  contributed  to  the  study  and  practice 
of  letters  in  this  country.  I  would  ask  you  all  to  realize  what  it 
means  to  this  college  that  Professor  Winchester  has  been  willing 
to  live  out  his  life  here  in  Middletown,  directing  boys  to  the  appre- 
ciation and  delight  of  good  literature  and  to  an  interest  in  .the  life 
of  the  reason  and  the  spirit  and  the  imagination  which  good  litera- 
ture reveals.  And  he  is  only  one  of  my  old  teachers.  I  wish  there 
were  time  to  praise  them  all  to  their  faces.  He  is  only  one  in  a 
long  list,  an  eminent  list,  of  men  who  have  devoted  their  lives  to 
Wesleyan's  interests  and  success.  Without  the  prizes  of  wealth  or 
excitement  which  the  world  rates  high,  and  without  the  incentives 
and  rewards  which  greater  universities  sometimes  give,  these  men 
have  carried  on  their  study  and  their  reading,  their  research  and 
their  speculation,  here  among  this  colony  of  boys,  to  whom  they 
have  taught  clean  living  and  serious  thought  and  loyal  service. 
May  we  not  forget  our  debt  to  them  in  this  time  of  celebrating. 
Let  us  not  simply  praise  them  to-day  and  go  on  underpaying  them 
to-morrow.  (Applause.)  It  is  they  whom  I  should  like  to  toast, 
and  I  should  like  to  give  you  this  sentiment  from  Kipling : 


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The  tumult  and  the  shouting  dies, 
The  captains  and  the  kings  depart; 

Still  stands  thine  ancient  sacrifice, 
The  humble  and  underpaid  professor.  (Applause.) 

THE  TOASTMASTER  : 

The  time  has  passed  when  New  England  can  claim  any  monop- 
oly of  educational  privilege,  and  unless  she  is  careful  the  time  will 
pass  when  she  can  claim  any  primacy  therein.  It  is  not  only  in 
the  West  that  there  are  growing  up  great  educational  centres,  but 
also  in  the  South.  I  have  the  honor  to  call  upon  a  gentleman  who 
represents  one  of  the  most  important  and  influential  of  the  educa- 
tional institutions  in  the  South — Chancellor  James  Hampton  Kirk- 
land,  of  Vanderbilt  University.  (Applause.) 

CHANCELLOR  JAMES  HAMPTON  KIRKLAND 

IT  will  no  doubt  be  in  order  for  me  to  say  that  I  am  very  happy 
for  the  privilege  of  standing  here,  but,  being  a  college  presi- 
dent and,  therefore,  eminently  a  truthful  man,  I  will  not  say  that 
I  am  happy.  I  am  like  the  individual  who  took  part  in  one  of  the 
university  pageants  given  last  year  in  England  in  which  the  partic- 
ipants were  costumed  as  Greek  and  Roman  characters.  One  of 
the  participants  sauntered  up  to  another  of  the  throng  and  said, 
"Are  you  'Appius  Claudius'?"  And  he  replied,  "No,  I  am  not 
'appy  as  Claudius ;  I'm  as  un'appy  as  'ell."  (Laughter.) 

But,  in  spite  of  some  personal  discomfort,  let  me  use  my  few 
moments  in  expressing  the  satisfaction  that  I  feel  in  bearing 
greetings  to  this  renowned  institution  and  in  tendering  congratu- 
lations on  the  auspicious  circumstances  under  which  a  new  era 
begins.  We  have  heard  to-day  much  of  the  West.  The  South, 
too,  shares  in  its  obligations  to  Wesleyan  University.  We  have 
heard  of  your  great  teachers,  and  we  have  drawn  inspiration  from 
these  sources.  Some  of  our  leaders  have  come  from  Wesleyan, 
and  I  venture  to  speak,  therefore,  not  only  for  the  institution  I 
represent  but  for  a  wider  circle.  And,  indeed,  the  South  is  wide. 
It  is  a  peculiar  and  interesting  geographical  fact  that  the  further 
north  you  go  the  bigger  the  South  is.  And  some  explorers  main- 
tain, if  their  original  records  be  correct,  that  there  is  a  point  where 
it  is  all  South.  Dr.  Stephen  Olin  came  to  this  institution  from 
the  South.  He  served  an  apprenticeship  at  Randolph  Macon  Col- 


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lege,  and  his  name  is  still  revered  among  us.  Bishop  E.  R.  Hen- 
drix,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trust  of  Vanderbilt  University, 
and  a  wise  educational  leader,  is  an  honored  alumnus  of  Wesleyan. 
We  delight  in  such  reunions  as  this  because  they  give  us  an  oppor- 
tunity to  express  our  sympathy  with  all  educational  work  and  our 
desire  to  participate  in  it.  In  this  great  task  we  are  all  of  one 
mind  and  heart.  There  was  a  time  of  sad  and  unfortunate  history 
that  divided  us,  but,  thank  God !  that  is  past  forever.  There  is  a 
South  to-day  of  national  sympathies  and  aspirations,  and  that 
South  is  living  in  our  educational  institutions,  and  that  South  I 
represent  to-night.  Many  of  our  northern  friends  think  the  South 
is  still  divided  by  a  great  and  impassable  barrier  from  all  the  rest 
of  the  country.  I  recall  the  story  of  a  New  Englander  who  lived 
in  a  community  where  he  had  heard  of  nothing  but  Republicans 
all  his  life,  and  where  a  Democrat  was  a  term  of  invidious  distinc- 
tion and  of  personal  reproach.  For  the  first  time  in  his  life  he 
went  to  New  York,  and  to  his  great  surprise  he  found  there  quite 
a  sprinkling  of  Democrats.  (Laughter.)  Then  he  journeyed  on 
to  Maryland  and  found  more  Democrats,  and,  apparently,  very 
respectable  people.  Then  he  went  down  to  Virginia,  where  nearly 
all  the  respectable  people  were  Democrats,  and  the  term  "Repub- 
lican" was  not  quite  so  reputable  as  it  had  been  to  him.  There- 
upon he  wrote  back  home  and  said :  "I  find  that  the  further  I  go 
toward  the  tropics,  the  greater  the  proportion  of  Democrats.  I 
am  sure  that  if  I  extended  my  journey  to  the  point  where  the 
temperature  continues  steadily  high  and  water  becomes  absolutely 
unknown  I  should  find  nothing  but  Democrats."  (Laughter.) 

We  have  evolved  a  kind  of  Democrat  out  of  the  last  campaign 
that  I  am  pleased  to  report  on,  and  that  is  what  we  know  in  the 
South  as  a  "Taft  Democrat,"  and  there  are  a  great  many  of  them. 
They  were  there  before  the  election,  but  there  are  more  of  them 
now.  The  recent  journey  of  President  Taft  throughout  that  sec- 
tion has  done  much  to  bring  together  our  people,  to  make  them 
feel  that  they  are  part  of  our  common  country,  and  that  they  have 
a  Chief  Magistrate  who  is  neither  Easterner  nor  Westerner, 
Northerner  nor  Southerner,  but  American,  and  that  he  belongs  to 
them  as  well  as  to  you.  (Applause.) 

Mr.  Chairman,  I  look  for  educational  institutions  to  do  a  great 
work  in  uniting  our  people,  in  uniting  all  sections  in  common 
labor  for  civic  improvements,  for  social  regeneration,  for  individual 


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freedom,  for  spiritual  uplift,  for  scientific  discovery,  for  all  great 
and  good  enterprises.  To  these  holy  tasks  Wesleyan  is  dedicated, 
and  to  them  all  of  you  gentlemen  are  giving  your  lives.  We  covet 
the  privilege  of  laboring  hand  in  hand  with  you.  We  are  your 
brothers,  and  we  are  bound  to  you  in  a  common  service. 

I  note  the  ominous  glance  of  your  toastmaster  that  I  should  stop 
here,  and  I  recall  the  story  of  a  gentleman  in  New  York  last  win- 
ter who  started  down  the  steps  of  the  subway  station  one  morning 
when  they  were  covered  with  ice.  Just  in  front  of  him  was  a  lady 
of  some  two  hundred  pounds  slowly  making  her  way  down  the 
steps.  This  gentleman's  feet  slipped  from  under  him  and  in  a 
moment  the  lady  was  sitting  in  his  lap  and  they  were  both  scud- 
ding down  toward  the  car  platform.  As  they  reached  the  bot- 
tom the  old  lady  made  no  effort  to  rise  until  he  gently  tapped  her 
on  the  shoulder  and  said,  "Madam,  move  on;  I  stop  here." 
(Laughter.) 

THE  TOASTMASTER: 

Intimate  and  cordial  as  are  the  relations  of  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, I  believe,  with  all  the  fraternity  of  New  England  colleges, 
with  no  one  of  them  all,  perhaps,  are  those  relations  quite  so  close, 
in  several  ways,  as  with  Williams  College.  Somewhat  similar  in 
situation,  the  two  colleges  are,  if  I  mistake  not,  also  very  similar 
in  temper,  ideals,  and  methods.  Though  Williams  is  the  larger, 
yet  both  colleges,  I  believe,  are  content  to  be  enrolled  in  the 
list  of  the  smaller  colleges,  and  have  no  overweening  desire  for 
mere  numbers.  The  students  of  both  colleges,  year  after  year  for 
a  dozen  years  past,  have  met  in  friendly  contest  upon  the  athletic 
field  and  the  platform  of  debate ;  and  I  think  neither  one  has  been 
so  uniformly  victorious  as  to  discourage  the  rivalry  of  the  other. 
It  is,  then,  with  an  especial  sense  of  the  friendly  relations  of  the 
two  colleges,  that  I  have  the  honor  to  introduce  President  Harry 
A.  Garfield,  LL.D.,  President  of  Williams  College. 

PRESIDENT  HARRY  AUGUSTUS  GARFIELD 

IT  gives  me  especial  pleasure  to  bring  the  greetings  of  Williams 
College  to  you  on   this   occasion,  and  to  wish  your  new 
President  and  Wesleyan  all  the  good  things  that  have  been  ex- 
pressed by  the  many  speakers  to-day,  and  much  more  eloquently 
than  I  can  hope  to  express  them  in  the  few  minutes  allotted  to  me. 


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As  your  Toastmaster  has  said,  there  has  existed  a  bond  of 
fellowship  between  Wesleyan  and  Williams  for  many  years.  Last 
night  I  was  reminded  of  an  occasion  when  first  I  met  Wesleyan 
men.  It  was  on  the  football  field  in  Springfield.  The  events  of 
the  day  furnish  a  fair  example  of  the  spirit  which  prevailed 
twenty-five  years  ago.  One  gentleman — I  think  the  title  is  not 
inappropriate  in  spite  of  what  occurred — had  his  ribs  fractured ; 
another  was  unfortunate  enough  to  have  his  teeth  knocked  down 
his  throat;  still  a  third  sustained  a  broken  leg.  I  recall  that  in 
the  progress  of  the  game  the  Wesleyan  men  passed  down  the  lines 
on  one  side  of  the  field  and  the  Williams  men  down  the  lines  on 
the  other.  I  shall  not  undertake  to  say  from  which  side  the  voices 
came,  but  I  heard  cries  of  "Kill  him,  kill  him !"  They  expressed 
the  sentiment  of  that  day,  and  the  results  were  what  I  have  told 
you. 

The  Wesleyan  alumnus  who  related  the  incident  last  night  re- 
called himself  to  me  by  the  following  remark :  " You  don't  remem- 
ber me,  but  you  broke  my  leg  twenty-five  years  ago."  I  hadn't 
the — honor,  I  am  very  sure.  I  know  there  was  a  leg  broken,  but 
I  plead  not  guilty.  (Laughter.) 

We  claim  nowadays  that  we  have  improved  the  game.  We 
have  at  least  cultivated  better  manners.  It  seems  to  me  that  col- 
lege sports  as  a  whole  are  on  a  better  basis  in  that  respect.  Evi- 
dence of  this  was  given  me  last  night,  and  I  assure  you  it  affected 
me  pleasurably.  It  appears  that  in  the  game  which  took  place 
between  Wesleyan  and  Williams  on  your  football  field  not  long 
ago  the  captain  of  the  Williams  team  was  laid  low.  I  believe  the 
rule  is  that  two  minutes  are  allowed  within  which  a  man  may 
recover  himself  if  he  is  to  continue  in  the  game.  The  two  min- 
utes had  passed,  or  nearly  so,  and  the  referee  was  about  to  say 
that  time  was  up,  and  that  the  captain  of  the  Williams  team 
must  withdraw  from  the  field,  when  the  Wesleyan  captain  inter- 
fered, saying,  "Let  Captain  Brooks  have  all  the  time  he  needs." 
It  was  a  display  of  fine  spirit. 

[President  Garfield  was  prevented  by  sudden  illness  from  con- 
tinuing his  remarks.] 

THE  TOASTMASTER  : 

Vice-President  Sherman  insists,  on  account  of  President 
Garfield's  illness,  that  we  close  the  speaking  now.  He  was 


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to  be  the  next  speaker,  but  he  positively  insists  that  we  shall 
omit  his  speech. 


The  Vice-President  made  a  brief  speech  at  the  President's 
reception  later  in  the  evening.  He  said :  "A  great  deal  has  been 
said  about  my  friend  Dr.  Shanklin  at  this  inauguration.  I  want 
to  tell  you  that  nobody  ever  knew  much  about  him  before  he 
graduated  at  Hamilton  College.  But  I  knew  him,  and  I  now 
want  to  inform  you  that  he  was  the  same  man  then  that  he  is 
now,  just  as  human,  just  as  true  to  principles  of  manhood,  as 
he  is  now.  He  took  part  in  every  activity  of  college  life  with  a 
true  sense  of  honesty,  justice,  and  righteousness.  He  always  had 
a  warm  heart  and  was  a  loyal  friend  to  his  fellows.  That  spirit 
has  stayed  with  him,  so  I  predict  wonderful  things  for  Wesleyan 
University  under  his  guidance.  He  knows  how  to  get  in  touch 
with  the  students,  I  fancy,  and  that  will  be  but  one  of  the  many 
secrets  of  his  achievements.  Under  his  administration  I  see 
Wesleyan  sending  out  noble  sons  to  aid  in  the  promotion  of  God's, 
kingdom  on  earth." 


APPENDIX 


FORMS  OF,  INVITATIONS,  CIRCULARS. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 


APPENDIX  105 


[Invitation  to  other  Institutions.] 


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APPENDIX 


[Invitation  to  Specially  Invited  Guests.} 


Ss&Me'Mizsn     &69W&€*'44>£u' 


APPENDIX  107 


[Card  accompanying  Invitations  to  other  Institutions  and  Specially  Invittd  Guests.  ] 


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[Invitation  to  Alumni.] 


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«  «    Slff'S-rrtf 


[Circular  sent  to  Alumni.] 

WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY 


MIDDLE-TOWN,  CONN.,  Sept  27,  1909. 
MY  DEAR  SIR  : 

The  programme  for  the  day  of  the  Installation  of  President 
Shanklin  will  be  as  follows: 

10:00  A.  M.     Installation  exercises  in  the  Middlesex  Opera 
House. 

1 :3O  P.  M.    Luncheon  in  the  Fayerweather  Gymnasium. 

8  :oo   to    1 1  :oo   P.    M.     Reception  at   the   residence   of   the 
President. 

In  view  of  the  general  desire  to  greet  President  Shanklin  and 
to  hear  him  and  the  other  distinguished  speakers,  including  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  who  will  take  part  in  the  Installa- 
tion exercises,  an  exceptionally  large  gathering  of  alumni  is 
expected.  The  Committee  on  Entertainment  accordingly  desires 
to  secure  as  prompt  and  complete  information  as  possible  con- 
cerning the  number  of  guests  for  whom  provision  is  to  be  made. 

Will  you  kindly  aid  the  Committee  by  signifying  on  the  inclosed 
postal  whether  or  not  you  intend  to  be  present  at  the  Installation 
exercises?  If  you  have  already  arranged  for  accommodations, 
please  give  the  location  of  your  room,  as  the  cards  when  returned 
are  to  be  filed  and  used  as  a  directory. 

A  small  number  of  rooms  will  be  available  in  the  hotels  of  the 
city.  For  those  who  may  apply  the  Committee  can  secure  a 
limited  number  of  rooms  in  private  houses.  The  rent  of  rooms 
will  probably  average  about  $2.00  a  day,  and  such  rooms  in  the 
majority  of  cases  contain  double  beds.  Assignments  of  rooms 
will  be  made  in  the  order  of  application.  It  is  important,  there- 
fore, that  applications  be  made  at  an  early  date.  It  is  requested 
that  those  who  secure  rooms  through  the  Committee  settle  directly 
with  the  persons  from  whom  they  are  rented,  as  the  Committee 
cannot  undertake  any  financial  responsibility  in  the  matter. 

Accommodations  may  be  secured  in  Hartford  at  such  hotels 
as  the  Allyn  House,  Hotel  Heublein  and  Hotel  Garde;  and  in 

109 


i  io  APPENDIX 

Meriden  at  the  Winthrop  Hotel.  Rooms  in  these  hotels  must  be 
secured  by  direct  application.  There  is  through  trolley  service 
between  Hartford  and  Middletown  every  hour,  and  between 
Meriden  and  Middletown  about  every  forty-five  minutes. 

The  eating  clubs  of  the  various  college  fraternities  will  supply 
meals  at  reasonable  rates  to  their  own  alumni.  The  College  Com- 
mons will  furnish  meals  to  visitors  as  far  as  accommodations 
permit.  Meals  can  be  secured  also  at  the  hotels  and  restaurants, 
and  in  a  very  few  cases  in  private  families.  In  filling  out  the  in- 
closed card  please  indicate  where  you  wish  to  take  your  meals. 

Admission  to  the  luncheon  will  be  by  ticket,  each  alumnus 
being  entitled  to  one  ticket  only.  The  accommodations  are  limited, 
and  application  for  tickets  should  be  made  as  early  as  possible. 
Tickets  may  be  obtained  by  those  for  whom,  in  accordance  with 
such  application,  they  have  been  reserved,  at  the  College  Library, 
between  seven  and  ten  o'clock  on  the  evening  of  Thursday,  Nov. 
nth.  Such  tickets  as  may  remain  after  that  time  can  be  secured 
on  Friday  morning  between  eight  o'clock  and  half-past  nine,  at 
or  near  the  Middlesex.  Any  tickets  remaining  after  the  latter 
hour  will  be  subject  to  reassignment.  Tickets  must  be  called  for 
in  person. 

Admission  to  the  Installation  exercises  also  will  be  by  ticket 
only.  In  view  of  the  limited  capacity  of  the  house,  applications 
for  these  tickets  also  should  be  made  as  early  as  possible.  These 
tickets  may  be  secured  at  the  same  times  and  places  as  the 
luncheon  tickets. 

Please  fill  out  the  inclosed  postal  card  in  full  and  mail  it 
NOW.  The  Committee  cannot  assume  any  responsibility  for 
either  tickets  or  accommodations  unless  application  is  made  before 
Nov.  1st. 

For  the  Committee, 

KARL  P.  HARRINGTON. 


APPENDIX 


in 


[Private  Mailing  Card  sent  with  foregoing  Circular  ] 

I  do expect  to  be  present  at  the  Installation  of  President 

Shanklin,  reaching  Middletown  on   Nov ,  and  remaining  till 


Please  reserve room for  me  and  secure  board  at 

[/  have  already  secured  a  room  at 

_ Street. ,]    Please  do— reserve  a  ticket  for 

me  for  the  Installation  exercises.    Please  do reserve  a  luncheon 

ticket  for  me. 

Name —-Class 

A  ddress, — 


The  Committee  will  endeavor  to  secure  rooms  and  board,  but  cannot  guaranty  either. 


112  APPENDIX 

[Stcond  circular  sent  to  Alumni.} 

WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY  ALUMNI 
ASSOCIATION 

GEORGE  M.  LA  MONTE,  President 
35  Nassau  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

KARL  P.  HARRINGTON,  Secretary 
Middletown,  Conn. 


To  THE  ALUMNI  OF  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY  : 

The  Installation  of  President  William  Arnold  Shanklin,  which 
is  to  take  place  on  the  I2th  of  November,  will  be  an  event  of 
particular  interest  to  every  Alumnus  of  Wesleyan.  You  are 
probably  aware  of  the  cordial  reception  which  President  Shanklin 
has  received  from  the  Faculty  and  students;  but  you  may  not 
know  that  over  120  men  have  already  been  enrolled  in  the 
Freshman  Class — the  largest  number  of  men  hitherto  in  any 
given  class  having  been  99. 

The  1 2th  of  November  will  probably  witness  the  largest 
gathering  of  notable  persons  in  Middletown  that  has  ever  met  in 
that  venerable  city.  The  Hon.  William  H.  Taft,  President  of  the 
United  States,  has  signified  his  intention  of  being  the  Guest  of  the 
University  at  that  time,  and  he  will  be  accompanied  by  Senator 
Root,  who  is  a  warm  personal  friend  of  President  Shanklin.  Be- 
sides these,  representatives  from  other  Universities  will  take  part 
in  the  ceremony. 

The  Alumni  body  of  Wesleyan  is  not  so  large  as  to  lose  the 
force  of  a  personal  appeal.  We  are  still  a  large  family,  each 
member  of  which  takes  a  personal  interest  in  the  doings  of  the 
college  and  in  its  welfare;  and  in  no  way  can  we  show  our  in- 
terest more  fittingly  than  by  returning  to  Middletown  to  take  our 
part  in  the  Installation  ceremonies. 

While  greeting  the  new  President,,  we  will  have  an  opportunity 
to  greet  many  old  friends.  In  order  to  make  the  occasion  still 
more  interesting,  the  Fraternities  have  agreed  to  postpone  their 
Initiations  until  the  night  of  November  nth,  the  evening  preced- 
ing the  Installation.  They  will  also  keep  open  house  during  the 
early  hours  of  the  evening,  in  accordance  with  the  regular  Com- 


APPENDIX  113 

mencement  custom,  which  will  afford  the  visiting  Alumni  an  op- 
portunity to  call  upon  their  friends  at  the  various  houses.  This 
will  also  afford  them  an  opportunity  of  meeting  the  distinguished 
guests  of  the  University. 

If  you  have  not  already  done  so,  please  send  your  reply  at  once 
to  Karl  P.  Harrington,  Secretary,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Yours  very  truly, 

GEORGE  M.  LA  MONTE, 

President. 


ii4  APPENDIX 

[Circular  sent  to  Delegates  and  Specially  Invited  Guests.] 

WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY 


MIDDLE-TOWN,  CONN.,  October  27,  1909. 
DEAR  SIR: 

The  Committee  of  Arrangements  for  the  Installation  of  the 
President  of  Wesleyan  University,  on  November  twelfth,  learn 
with  much  pleasure  that  you  have  accepted  an  invitation  to  be 
present  on  that  day. 

The  Programme  for  the  day,  in  outline,  is  as  follows : 

10  AM.  The  Formal  Exercises  of  Installation  will  be  held  in 
the  Middlesex  Opera  House — the  Induction  of  the  President,  Con- 
gratulatory Addresses,  the  President's  Inaugural,  the  Conferring 
of  Honorary  Degrees. 

Delegates  and  Guests  are  requested  to  assemble  promptly  at 
9:15  in  the  ante- rooms  of  the  Middlesex. 

1 130  P.M.  An  Informal  Luncheon  will  be  served  in  Fisk  Hall 
to  Delegates,  Invited  Guests,  and  Alumni. 

3  P.M.  The  Delegates  from  other  colleges  will  be  formally 
presented  to  President  Shanklin  and  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States.  These  Presentation  Exercises  will  be  held  in  the  Fayer- 
weather  Gymnasium ;  seats  will  be  reserved  for  Invited  Guests. 

6  P.M.  Dinner  will  be  served  in  Fisk  Hall  for  Delegates  and 
Invited  Guests,  with  the  Trustees  and  Faculty  of  Wesleyan 
University. 

9  P.M.    Reception  by  the  President  at  his  Residence. 

Admission  to  all  these  exercises — except,  of  course,  the 
President's  Reception — will  be  by  ticket  only.  Further  informa- 
tion will  be  sent  you,  in  a  few  days,  as  to  the  time  and  place  of 
the  delivery  of  these  tickets,  the  place  of  your  personal  entertain- 
ment, the  formation  of  the  academic  procession,  and  other  details 
of  the  programme  for  the  day.  In  order  that  the  Committee  may 
have  the  information  necessary  to  enable  them  to  perfect  these 
details  of  arrangement,  may  we  ask  you  to  fill  out  the  enclosed 
card  and  return  it  immediately. 

Yours  very  truly, 

For  the  Committee, 

A.  C.  ARMSTRONG,  Marshal. 


APPENDIX  115 

[Second  circular  sent  to  Delegates  and  Specially  Invited  Guest*.] 

INSTALLATION  OF 
WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,  L.H.D.,  LL.D. 


MIDDLETOWN,  CONN.,  November  4,  1909. 
DEAR  SIR: 

An  outline  Programme  of  the  Exercises  of  the  Installation  of 
President  William  Arnold  Shanklin  has  already  been  sent  you. 
A  card  is  enclosed  herewith  stating  the  provision  made  for  your 
entertainment  while  in  Middletown. 

Persons  arriving  by  trolley  cars  from  Berlin  Junction,  if  they 
desire  carriages,  should  leave  the  cars  at  the  railway  station  in 
Middletown. 

A  representative  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment — wearing 
a  badge  of  the  college  colors,  cardinal  and  black — will  meet  the 
principal  trains  on  the  evening  of  Thursday,  eleventh,  and  on  the 
morning  of  Friday,  twelfth,  to  furnish  aid  in  securing  carriages 
and  give  any  information  to  Delegates  and  Guests. 

Guests  arriving  on  Thursday  evening  will  find  tickets  to  all  the 
exercises  of  the  next  day,  together  with  a  detailed  Programme, 
awaiting  them  at  their  places  of  entertainment. 

There  will  be  an  Information  Room  open  at  the  College  Library 
on  the  evening  of  Thursday,  from  seven  to  ten. 

Delegates  and  Invited  Guests  are  requested  to  meet  in  the  ante- 
rooms of  The  Middlesex  at  nine-fifteen  on  Friday  morning.  Un- 
less specially  notified,  Invited  Guests  will  please  meet  in  "Orpheus 
Hall,"  and  Delegates  in  "Red  Men's  Hall ;"  both  these  rooms  are 
on  the  third  floor  of  The  Middlesex.  The  doors  of  The  Middlesex 
will  be  closed  as  the  academic  procession  will  move  at  nine-forty- 
five. 

Coat  rooms  will  be  provided  in  The  Middlesex,  with  opportuni- 
ties for  putting  on  and  off  academic  dress. 

There  will  also  be  a  parcel  and  coat  room  in  Fisk  Hall,  open 
from  8:30  A.  M.,  throughout  the  day.  Academic  dress  may  be 
checked  here  during  the  Luncheon. 

Delegates  and  Invited  Guests  are  requested  to  assemble  in  the 
Fayerweather  Gymnasium  at  2 145  p.  M.,  for  the  Ceremony  of  Pre- 


ii6  APPENDIX 

sentation  of  Delegates.  Delegates — and  they  only — are  requested 
to  resume  academic  costume  at  that  time.  For  them  a  coat  room 
will  be  provided  in  the  Gymnasium. 

Yours  very  truly, 

For  the  Committee, 

A.  C.  ARMSTRONG,  Marshal. 


APPENDIX  117 

[Marshal's  Notice.] 

WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY 


installation  of  $3resibent  fefjanklin 


ANNOUNCEMENTS  TO  ALUMNI. 

As  already  announced,  the  Installation  of  President  Shanklin 
will  take  place  on  November  twelfth.  The  Programme  for  the 
day,  in  outline,  is  as  follows : 

10  A.  M.  The  Formal  Exercises  of  Installation  will  be  held  in 
the  Middlesex  Opera  House — the  Induction  of  the  President,  Con- 
gratulatory Addresses,  the  President's  Inaugural,  the  Conferring 
of  Honorary  Degrees. 

At  these  exercises,  seats  will  be  provided  for  the  alumni — the 
entire  ground  floor  being  reserved  for  the  men,  and,  for  the 
women,  a  block  of  seats  in  the  Balcony,  where  most  of  the  non- 
official  guests  will  be  seated. 

The  doors  of  the  Middlesex  will  be  opened  at  9  A.  M.  (North 
entrance  only),  but  will  be  closed  promptly  at  9:45  A.  M.  in  order 
that  the  procession  of  Trustees,  Faculty,  Delegates  from  other  In- 
stitutions, and  Specially  Invited  Guests  may  pass  undisturbed 
from  the  ante-rooms  into  the  auditorium. 

I  .-30  P.  M.  An  Informal  Luncheon  will  be  served  in  Fisk  Hall 
to  Trustees,  Faculty,  Delegates,  Specially  Invited  Guests,  and 
Alumni.  On  account  of  limited  space,  no  provision  can  be  made 
for  other  persons  than  those  here  named. 

Facilities  will  be  provided  for  checking  coats,  etc.,  at  Fisk  Hall. 

3  P.  M.  The  Delegates  from  other  Colleges  will  be  formally 
presented  to  President  Shanklin  and  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States.  These  Presentation  Exercises  will  be  held  in  the  Fayer- 
weather  Gymnasium,  where  seats  will  be  reserved  for  Invited 
Guests.  To  these  exercises  alumni  will  be  admitted,  but  it  will  be 
impossible  to  provide  accommodation  for  their  friends  and  rela- 
tives. 

6  P.  M.  Dinner  will  be  served  in  Fisk  Hall  for  Delegates  and 
Invited  Guests,  with  the  Trustees  and  Faculty  of  Wesleyan 
University. 

9  P.  M.    Reception  by  the  President  at  his  Residence.  To  this 


ii8  APPENDIX 

Reception  the  President  and  Mrs.  Shanklin  invite  all  alumni  of 
Wesleyan  University  and  their  friends. 

Admission  to  all  these  exercises — except,  of  course,  the  Presi- 
dent's Reception — will  be  by  ticket  only. 

Tickets  have  been  reserved  for  you  for  the  Installation,  the 
Luncheon,  and  the  Presentation. 

These  tickets  will  be  found  at  the  College  Library  on  Thursday 
evening,  November  n,  between  7  and  10  o'clock,  and  should  be 
called  for  within  these  hours,  unless  delay  is  imperatively  neces- 
sary. Those  who  cannot  come  at  this  time  can  get  their  tickets 
on  Friday  morning,  between  8:30  and  9:30,  at  the  store  of  M. 
Press,  on  the  corner  of  College  and  Main  Streets.  No  tickets  will 
be  issued  at  the  Middlesex,  and  no  tickets  will  be  reserved  after 
half -past  nine  on  Friday  morning. 

An  Information  Bureau  will  be  found  at  the  College  Library 
from  7  to  10  o'clock  on  Thursday  evening. 

For  the  Committee, 

A.  C.  ARMSTRONG,  Marshal. 
MIDDLETOWN,  CONN.,  November  3,  1909. 


APPENDIX  119 

[Dinner  Menu.] 


WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY 


INSTALLATION   OF 
WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,    L.H.D.,    LL.D. 

AS  PRESIDENT 
FRIDAY   NOVEMBER   TWELFTH 


NINETEEN    HUNDRED    AND    NINE 


120 


APPENDIX 


DINN1 


PRESIDENT,  TRUSTEES,  FACULTY 


GUESTS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY 
FISK  HALL  AT  SIX  O'CLOCK 


J 
APPENDIX  121 


.MENU. 


fcora-b'oeubre* 
Olives  Pimento        Olives  Queen         Amandes  ualees 

fctiftrt* 
Clam  Cocktail  a  la  Boston 

Dotage 
Consomme  Royal 


Petoncles  a  la  Newburtfn 

*oti 
Filet  de  Boeuf  aux  ckampignons    Pommes  de  Terre  a  la  Barr 

Corbet 
A  la  W^esleyan 


Pi^eonneau  de  PKiladelpkia,  aux  Fine  Herbea 
Gelee  en  croustaae 


A  la  Waldorf 


Biscuits  Tortoni  Petits-Fours 

Jfromagt 

Brie  Roquefort  Camembert 

Saltines 

Cafe 
Cale  au  lait 


bp  tfje  College  <§lce  Clud 


LIST  OF  VISITORS 


Belegate*  from  ©ttjtc  Sanitations; 

United  States  Bureau  of  Education, 

Hon.  ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  of  the  United  States. 

Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  Advancement  of  Teaching, 

HENRY  SMITH  PRITCHETT,  Sc.D.,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Me  Gill  University, 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  COLBY,  A.M.,  Professor  of  History. 

Harvard  University, 

EDWARD  CALDWELL  MOORE,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Parkman  Professor 
of  Theology. 

Yale  University, 

ARTHUR  TWINING  HADLEY,  LL.D.,  President. 

University  of  Pennsylvania, 

MARION  DEXTER  LEARNED,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  L.H.D.,  Professor 
of  German. 

Princeton  University, 

WINTHROP  MORE  DANIELS,  A.M.,  Professor  of  Political 
Economy. 

Columbia  University, 

ASHLEY  HORACE  THORNDIKE,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of 
English. 

Brown  University, 

WILLIAM   HERBERT   PERRY  FAUNCE,   A.M.,  D.D.,   LL.D., 

President. 

WILLIAM  CAREY  POLAND,  A.M.,  Litt.D.,  Professor  of  the 
History  of  Art,  and  Director  of  the  Museum  of  Fine 
Arts. 

125 


126  APPENDIX 

Rutgers  College, 

WILLIAM  HENRY  STEELE  DEMAREST,  A.M.,  D.D.,  President. 

Dartmouth  College, 

ERNEST  Fox  NICHOLS,  D.Sc.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Dickinson  College, 

GEORGE  EDWARD  REED,  S.T.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

BRADFORD  OLIVER  MC!NTIRE,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of 
English  Literature. 

MORRIS  WATSON  PRINCE,  A.M.,  S.T.D.,  Professor  of  Po- 
litical Science. 

University  of  North  Carolina, 

KARL  POMEROY  HARRINGTON,  A.M.,  Professor  of  Latin, 
Wesleyan  University. 

University  of  Vermont, 

MATTHEW  HENRY  BUCKHAM,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Williams  College, 

HARRY  AUGUSTUS  GARFIELD,  LL.D.,  President. 

Bowdoin  College,' 

FRANKLIN  CLEMENT  ROBINSON,  A.M.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of 
Chemistry  and  Mineralogy. 

Union  College, 

CHARLES  ALEXANDER  RICHMOND,  D.D.,  President  of  Union 
College ;  Chancellor  of  Union  University. 

Middlebury  College, 

MYRON  REED  SANFORD,  A.M.,  Professor  of  Latin. 

Miami  University, 

BANKS  JOHN  WILDMAN,  A.M.,  Litt.D.,  Professor  of  Latin. 

Hamilton  College, 

MELANCTHON  WOOLSEY  STRYKER,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Colgate  University, 

ELMER  BURRITT  BRYAN,  LL.D.,  President. 


APPENDIX  127 

University  of  Virginia, 

FRANCIS  HENRY  SMITH,  A.M.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L.,  Professor 
Emeritus  of  Natural  Philosophy. 

Amherst  College, 

GEORGE  HARRIS,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 
EDWIN  AUGUSTUS  GROSVENOR,  A.M.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of 
Modern  Government  and  International  Law. 

George  Washington  University, 

CHARLES  WILLIS  NEEDHAM,  LL.D.,  President. 

Trinity  College, 

JOHN  JAMES  McCooK,  A.M.,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Modern 
Languages. 

Western  Reserve  University, 

GEORGE  TRUMBULL  LADD,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor 
Emeritus  of  Moral  Philosophy  and  Metaphysics,  Yale 
University. 

New  York  University, 

SAMUEL  MACAULEY  JACKSON,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of 
Church  History. 

Lafayette  College, 

ETHELBERT  DUDLEY  WARFIELD,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President,  and 
Professor  of  History. 

Pennsylvania  College, 

PHILIP  MELANCHTHON  BIKL£,  Ph.D.,  Dean,  and  Professor 
of  Latin. 

Haverford  College, 

ALBERT  ELMER  HANCOCK,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Eng- 
lish. 

Hartford  Theological  Seminary, 

ARTHUR  LINCOLN  GILLETT,  A.M.,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Apolo- 
getics. 

Marietta  College, 

CHARLES  GOURLAY  GOODRICH,  M.S.,  Professor  of  Modern 
Languages. 


128  APPENDIX 

Union  Theological  Seminary, 

GEORGE  WILLIAM  KNOX,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of 
the  Philosophy  and  History  of  Religion. 

De  Pauw  University, 

HILLARY  ASBURY  GOBIN,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Vice-President, 
and  Professor  of  Biblical  Science. 

University  of  Michigan, 

HENRY  SMITH  CARHART,  A.M.,  LL.D.,  Professor  Emeritus 
of  Physics. 

Mount  Holyoke  College, 

MARY  EMMA  WOOLLEY,  A.M.,  Litt.D.,  L.H.D.,  President. 

Indiana  University, 

JAMES  PERTICE  PORTER,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Assistant  Professor  of 
Psychology,  and  Acting  Dean,  Clark  College. 

Ohio  Wesley  an  University, 

HERBERT  WELCH,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Beloit  College, 

FRANK   CHAMBERLIN   PORTER,   Ph.D..  D.D.,   Professor  of 
Biblical  Theology,  Yale  University. 

Mount  Union  College, 

WILLIAM  HENRY  MCMASTER,  M.A.,  President. 

Iowa  College, 

JOHN  HANSON  THOMAS  MAIN,  Ph.D.,  President. 

The  College  of  the  City  of  New  York, 

JOHN  HUSTON  FINLEY,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

University  of  Wisconsin, 

WILLIAM  GILBERT  ANDERSON,  A.M.,  Sc.M.,  M.D.,  Director 
of  the  Gymnasium,  Yale  University. 

Northwestern  University, 

ABRAM  WINEGARDNER  HARRIS,  Sc.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 
STEPHEN  JOSEPH  HERBEN,  Litt.D.,  D.D.,  Trustee. 


APPENDIX  129 

Tufts  College, 

PHILIP  MESERVE  HAYDEN,  A.B.,  Secretary  of  the  Faculty. 

Berkeley  Divinity  School, 

SAMUEL  HART,  A.M.,  D.D.,  D.C.L.,  Dean,  and  Professor  of 

Doctrinal  Theology  and  the  Prayer  Book. 
WILLIAM  PALMER  LADD,  A.M.,  B.D.,  Professor  of  Church 

History. 
ELLIS  BISHOP,  A.B.,  Professor  of  Pastoral  Theology  and 

Christian  Evidences. 

Washington  University, 

ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,  LL.D.,  Consul  General  of  the  United 
States,  Mexico  City. 

Pennsylvania  State  College, 

BENJAMIN  GILL,  A.M.,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Greek  and  Latin, 

and  Chaplain. 

ABRAHAM  HOWRY  ESPENSHADE,  A.M.,  Associate  Professor 
of  English,  and  Registrar. 

Garrett  Biblical  Institute, 

JAMES  SHERIDEN  CHADWICK,  D.D. 

Central  College  (Mo.), 

CHARLES  FRANKLIN,  A.M.,  B.D.,  Alumnus. 

•~i 

Upper  Iowa  University, 

RICHARD  WATSON  COOPER,  Litt.D.,  President. 
CHARLES  SHADE,  A.M.,  Trustee. 

Baker  University, 

JOHN  PARKE  SLAUGHTER,  Trustee. 

Vassar  College, 

JAMES  MONROE  TAYLOR,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 

RICHARD    COCKBURN    MACLAURIN,    A.M.,    Sc.D.,    LL.D., 
President. 

Massachusetts  Agricultural  College, 

CHARLES  WELLINGTON,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry. 


I3o  APPENDIX 

Bates  College, 

GEORGE  COLBY  CHASE,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President,  and  Professor 
of  Psychology  and  Logic. 

Cornell  University, 

EDWIN  WALTER  KEM MERER,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Economics 
and  Finance. 

University  of  Maine, 

GEORGE  EMORY  FELLOWS,  Ph.D.,  L.H.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Washburn  College, 

FRANK  KNIGHT  SANDERS,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Drew  Theological  Seminary, 

HENRY  ANSON  BUTTZ,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

University  of  Chattanooga, 

WILLIAM  FRANKLIN  ANDERSON,  S.T.D.,  LL.D.,  Bishop  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Trustee. 

Howard  University, 

WILBUR  PATTERSON  THIRKIELD,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Morgan  College, 

JOHN  OAKLEY  SPENCER,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  President. 

Wells  College, 

MRS.  MAX  PIUTTI,  A.B.,  Dean. 

Boston  University, 

WILLIAM  EDWARDS  HUNTINGTON,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Smith  College, 

LAURENUS  CLARK  SEELYE,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

Syracuse  University, 

EDGAR  ALFRED  EMENS,  A.M.,  Professor  of  the  Greek  Lan- 
guage and  Literature. 

Vanderbilt  University, 

JAMES  HAMPTON  KIRKLAND,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L., 
Chancellor. 


APPENDIX  131 

Wellesley  College, 

MARGARET  CLAY  FERGUSON,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Botany. 

Johns  Hopkins  University, 

DUNCAN  STARR  JOHNSON,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Botany. 

Connecticut  Agricultural  College, 

CHARLES  LEWIS  BEACH,  B.Agr.,  B.S.,  President. 

The  Woman's  College  of  Baltimore, 

EUGENE  ALLEN  NOBLE,  D.D.,  L.H.D.,  President. 

Pratt  Institute, 

CHARLES  MORSE  ALLEN,  A.M.,  Professor  of  Chemistry. 

dark  University, 

GEORGE  HUBBARD  BLAKESLEE,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of 
History. 

University  of  Chicago, 

WILLIAM  ARTHUR  HEIDEL,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Greek, 
Wesleyan  University. 

Rhode  Island  College  of  Agriculture  and  Mechanic  Arts, 

WILLIAM  SAWYER  SPENCER,  A.B.,  B.D.,  Assistant  Professor 
of  Public  Speaking. 

Simmons  College, 

HENRY  LEFAVOUR,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 

.Clark  College, 

EDMUND  CLARK  SANFORD,  Ph.D.,  Sc.D.,  President. 


132  APPENDIX 

fepectallp  Snbtteb  (guests 

WILLIAM  HOWARD  TAFT,  LL.D., 
President  of  the  United  States. 

JAMES  SCHOOLCRAFT  SHERMAN,  LL.D., 
Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 

ELIHU  ROOT,  LL.D., 

United  States  Senator  from  New  York. 

FRANK  BENTLEY  WEEKS,  LL.D., 
Governor  of  Connecticut. 

MORGAN  GARDINER  BULKELEY, 

United  States  Senator  from  Connecticut. 

ABIRAM  CHAMBERLAIN,  LL.D., 
Ex-Governor  of  Connecticut. 

OWEN  VINCENT  COFFIN,  LL.D., 
Ex-Governor  of  Connecticut. 

PHINEAS  CHAPMAN  LOUNSBURY,  LL.D., 
Ex-Governor  of  Connecticut. 

ROLLIN  SIMMONS  WOODRUFF,  LL.D., 
Ex-Governor  of  Connecticut. 

JOHN  Q.  TILSON,  LL.B., 

Congressional  Representative-at-large  from  Connecticut. 

FREEMAN  FREMONT  PATTEN, 
Treasurer  of  Connecticut. 

THOMAS  DUDLEY  BRADSTREET, 
Comptroller  of  Connecticut. 

MARCUS  H.  HOLCOMB, 

Attorney  General  of  Connecticut. 

SILAS  ARNOLD  ROBINSON,  LL.D., 

Associate  Judge,  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  of  Connecticut, 

BENJAMIN  F.  TURNER, 

Member  of  Connecticut  Senate  from  33rd  District. 


APPENDIX  133 

CHARLES  A.  APPEL, 

Member  of  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  from  Mid- 
dletown. 

FRANK  C.  SMITH, 

Member  of  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  from  Mid- 
dletown. 

ROBERT  FULTON  RAYMOND,  LL.D., 

Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Massachusetts. 

ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,  LL.D., 

United  States  Consul-General,  City  of  Mexico. 

RT.  REV.  CHAUNCEY  BUNCE  BREWSTER,  D.D., 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut. 

REV.  WILLIAM  BURT,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

REV.  CYRUS  DAVID  Foss,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

REV.  DANIEL  AYRES  GOODSELL,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN,  LL.D., 

United  States  Commissioner  of  Education. 

HENRY  SMITH  PRITCHETT,  LL.D., 

President,   Carnegie   Foundation   for  the  Advancement   of 
Teaching. 

REV.  THOMAS  NICHOLSON,  LL.D., 

Secretary,  Board  of  Education,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

REV.  JAMES  MONROE  BUCKLEY,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
Editor  of  The  Christian  Advocate. 

REV.  LEVI  GILBERT,  D.D., 

Editor  of  the  Western  Christian  Advocate. 

REV.  ALBERT  JULIUS  NAST,  D.D., 

Editor  of  Der  Christliche  Apologete. 


134  APPENDIX 

REV.  CHARLES  MACAULAY  STUART,  D.D., 

Editor  of  the  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate. 

REV.  ELWELL  ALEXANDER  BISHOP,  D.D., 

Principal  of  Montpelier  Seminary,  Montpelier,  Vt. 

CHARLES  SUMNER  CHAPIN,  M.A., 

Principal  of  Montclair  Normal  School,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

WILLIAM  PERRY  EVELAND,  Ph.D., 

President  of  Williamsport  Dickinson   Seminary,  Williams- 
port,  Pa. 

DWIGHT  HOLBROOK,  Ph.D., 

Principal  of  Holbrook  School,  Ossining,  N.  Y. 

HENRY  C.  HOLBROOK,  M.A., 

Holbrook  School,  Ossining,  N.  Y. 

REV.   THOMPSON  HOADLEY  LANDON,  D.D., 

Principal  of  Bordentown  Military  Institute,  Bordentown,  N.  J. 

REV.  JONATHAN  MAGIE  MEEKER,  D.D., 

President  of  Centenary  Collegiate  Institute,  Hackettstown, 
N.J. 

GEORGE  LINCOLN  PLIMPTON,  M.A., 

Principal  of  Tilton  Seminary,  Tilton,  N.  H. 

REV.  CHARLES  A.  STENHOUSE,  M.A., 

Principal  of  East  Greenwich  Academy,  East  Greenwich,  R.  I. 

MARCUS  WHITE,  M.A., 

Principal  of  New  Britain  Normal  School,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

CLARENCE  HOOD  WOOLSEY,  Ph.D., 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  FREDERICK  WATSON  HANNAN,  D.D., 

Visitor  from  New  York  East  Conference,  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church. 

REV.  ARTHUR  LEOLIN  HOWE,  B.A., 

Visitor  from  New  England  Conference. 


APPENDIX  135 

REV.  EUGENE  H.  JOY, 

Visitor  from  Northern  New  York  Conference. 

REV.  WILLIAM  H.  MACCLENTHEN, 

Visitor  from  Northern  New  York  Conference. 

REV.  CHARLES  M.  MELDEN,  Ph.D., 

Visitor  from  New  England  Conference. 

REV.  WARREN  ROBERT  NEFF,  B.A., 
Visitor  from  Newark  Conference. 

REV.  WILLIAM  RICE  NEWHALL,  D.D., 

Visitor  from  New  England  Conference. 

REV.  WTILBER  EDWARD  NEWTON,  B.A., 
Visitor  from  Vermont  Conference. 

REV.  WILLIAM  ARMSTRONG  RICHARD,  D.D., 
Visitor  from  New  York  East  Conference. 

REV.  E.  CAMPION  ACHESON,  M.A., 

Rector  of  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  ROBERT  BELL, 

Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  CARL  A.  BERGENDORF, 

Pastor  of  Swedish  Lutheran  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  CHARLES  W.  FLINT,  B.A., 

Pastor  of  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Middletown, 
Conn. 

REV.  FREDERICK  W.  GREENE,  B.A., 

Pastor  of  South  Congregational  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  AZEL  W.  HAZEN,  D.D., 

Pastor  of  North  Congregational  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  ARVID  OSTLING, 

Pastor   of    Swedish   Congregational    Church,    Middletown, 
Conn. 

REV.  HIRAM  W.  SMITH, 

Pastor  of  Universalist  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 


1 36  APPENDIX 

REV.  HERVEY  BOARDMAN  VANDERBOGART,  B.A., 

Curate  of  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Middletown,  Conn. 

REV.  CHARLES  H.  WORKMAN, 

Assistant  Pastor,  North  Congregational  Church,  Middletown, 
Conn. 

MRS.  WILBUR  O.  ATWATER. 

FRANCIS  A.  BEACH. 

ELMER  DOVER. 

TRACY  Dows. 

MRS.  TRACY  Dows. 

MRS.  G.  BROWN  GOODE. 

MRS.  CALVIN  S.  HARRINGTON. 

REV.  J.  WESLEY  HILL,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

MRS.  J.  WESLEY  HILL. 

MRS.  WALTER  M.  HILL. 

GENERAL  HORATIO  C.  KING,  LL.D.  t   • 

HENRY  W.  LINEN. 

WILLIAM  B.  PATTERSON. 

Miss  MARY  B.  PEIRCE. 

Miss  HELEN  F.  SMITH. 

ALEXANDER  C.  SOPER,  M.A. 

NEWELL  H.  STEWART. 

MRS.  NEWELL  H.  STEWART. 


APPENDIX 


137 


aiumnt  Present 

[This  list  includes  non-graduates,  their  names  being  printed  with  a  J.] 


1841 

GEORGE  G.  REYNOLDS. 

1847 
JOSEPH  E.  KING. 

1850 

JFRANCIS  H.  SMITH. 
JOHN  M.  VANVLECK. 

1852 

THOMPSON  H.  LANDON. 
JHIRAM  A.  MORGAN. 

1854 

CYRUS  D.  Foss. 
WILLIAM  T.  HILL. 

1856 
JAusTiN  GARDNER. 

1857 
W.  HENRY  SUTTON. 

1858 
GEORGE  S.  CHADBOURNE. 

1859 

C.  COLLARD  ADAMS. 
JHENRY  B.  BROWN. 
STEPHEN  B.  DAVIS. 

1860 

JJAMES  M.  BUCKLEY. 
ROBERT  L.  MATHISON. 
WEBSTER  R.  WALKLEY. 

1861 

ROSWELL  S.  DOUGLASS. 
CHARLES  G.  R.  VINAL. 
NATHAN  W.  WILDER. 


1862 
UOHN  R.  BUCK. 

1863 
WILLIAM  P.  HUBBARD. 

1864 

GEORGE  S.  BENNETT. 
CHARLES  W.  CHURCH. 
JESSE  L.  HURLBUT. 
HENRY  C.  M.  INGRAHAM. 
GEORGE  N.  PHELPS. 

1865 

WELLESLEY  W.  BOWDISH. 
EDWARD  CUTTS. 
WILLIAM  V.  KELLEY. 
WILLIAM  NORTH  RICE. 

1866 
STEPHEN  H.  OLIN. 

1868 

MARTIN  A.  KNAPP. 
ALBERT  J.  NAST. 
D.  WARD  NORTHROP. 
J  MORRIS  W.  PRINCE. 

1869 

HENRY  S.  CARHART. 
GEORGE  E.  REED. 
HENRY  A.  STARKS. 
CALEB  T.  WINCHESTER. 

1870 

DARIUS  BAKER. 
FREDERIC  W.  CLARKE. 
CHARLES  W.  GALLAGHER. 
BENJAMIN  GILL. 


138 


APPENDIX 


WILLIAM  A.  JOHNSTON. 
GEORGE  P.  MAINS. 
WILLIAM  J.  SMITH. 

1871 

ELDON  B.  BIRDSEY. 
WILLIAM  F.  WHITCHER. 

1872 

J  DAVID  B.  HUBBARD. 
SILAS  W.  KENT. 
FRANK  M.  NORTH. 
WATSON  L.  PHILLIPS. 
CHARLES  F.  RICE. 
ARTHUR  B.  SANFORD. 

1873 

BENJAMIN  E.  GERST. 
JONATHAN  M.  MEEKER. 
MARCUS  L.  TAFT. 
ALFRED  C.  TRUE. 

1874 

FORREST  E.  BARKER. 
MORRIS  B.  CRAWFORD. 
THEODORE  A.  DUNCAN. 
LEVI  GILBERT. 
FRANCIS  H.  PARKER. 
WESLEY  U.  PEARNE. 
JOHN  C.  WELWOOD. 


M.  EUGENE  CULVER. 
ERNEST  A.  MARKHAM. 
J  CHARLES  PHELPS. 
BENJAMIN  C.  PILSBURY. 

JjAMES  P.  STOW. 

1876 
JOSEPH  F.  ANDREW. 

JWlLLIAM  F.  BORGELT. 

AUGUSTUS  B.  CARRINGTON. 


GEORGE  S.  COLEMAN. 
CHARLES  E.  DAVIS. 
HENRY  D.  SIMONDS. 

1877 

MIDDLESEX  A.  BAILEY. 
JEREMIAH  F.  CALEF. 
OLIN  B.  COIT. 
UOSEPH  COLTER. 
HENRY  P.  COOKE. 
WILLIAM  I.  HAVEN. 
EDWARD  H.  MANSFIELD. 
THOMAS  C.  MARTIN. 
CRANDALL  J.  NORTH. 
CHARLES  H.  RAYMOND. 

1878 

ELWELL  A.  BISHOP. 
JOHN  S.  CAMP. 
ALPHA  G.  KYNETT. 
WILLIAM  D.  LEONARD. 
DANIEL  L.  ROBERTSON. 
WILLIAM  E.  SCOFIELD. 

1879 
J ALFRED  C.  ATKINS. 

LAHMAN  F.  BOWER. 

ALFRED  C.  BRUNER. 

WILLIAM  BURT. 

HENRY  GILDERSLEEVE. 

WILBUR  F.  HAMILTON. 

CHARLES  W.  HOLDEN. 

DANIEL  A.  MARKHAM. 

CAROLINE  L.  RICE  (Mrs.  Craw- 
ford). 

1880 
J  FREDERIC  P.  BURR. 

ANDREW  J.  COULTAS,  JR. 

CHARLES  S.  CHAPIN. 

MARTIN  W.  GRIFFIN. 

ABRAM  W.  HARRIS. 


APPENDIX 


139 


GEORGE  A.  PHINNEY. 
FREDERICK  W.  ROBBINS. 
MYRON  R.  SANFORD. 
ASA  H.  WILCOX. 

1881 
^ARTHUR  B.  CALEF. 

THOMAS  H.  ECKFELDT. 

T.  ALMERN  GRIFFIN. 

WILLIAM  A.  JONES. 

BENJAMIN  F.  KIDDER. 

FRANK  B.  LYNCH. 

CHARLES  W.  MCCORMICK. 

WILLIAM  E.  MEAD. 

WILLIAM  R.  NEWHALL. 
JROBERT  F.  RAYMOND. 
IWANTON  H.  SHERMAN,  JR. 

CHARLES  A.  STEN HOUSE. 

WILLIS  K.  STETSON. 

CLARA  VAN  VLECK. 

1882 

CHARLES  M.  ALLEN. 
JDANIEL  W.  CAMP. 

JOSEPH  F.  DECASTRO. 

BRACE  M.  GALLIEN. 

KARL  P.  HARRINGTON. 
JWILBUR  C.   NEWELL. 

CHARLES  REYNOLDS. 

HENRY  S.  WHITE. 
|  CLARA  A.  PEASE. 

1883 

J.  FRANCIS  COOPER. 
ELMER  G.  DERBY. 
JAMES  A.  DEVELIN. 
WILLIAM  J.  JAMES. 
BRADFORD  O.  MC!NTIRE. 
JOHN  W.  MAYNARD. 
THOMAS  SIMMS. 
EUGENE  H.  THRASHER. 


1884 

JOSEPH  B.  ACKLEY. 
HOWARD  A.  CLIFFORD. 
DAVID  G.  DOWNEY. 
GEORGE  M.  LA  MONTE. 
CHARLES  A.  LITTLEFIELD. 
WILLIAM  A.  RICHARD. 
FRED  E.  TASKER. 
WILLIAM  A.  TATEUM. 
ELLA  V.  BURR. 

1885 

FRANK  D.  BEATTYS. 

GEORGE  D.  BEATTYS. 
I  FREDERIC  W.  CLARK. 

JAMES  F.  FELLOWS. 

ADDISON  L.  GREEN. 

JAMES  S.  JUDD. 
JABRAM  S.  KAVANAGH. 

OSCAR  KUHNS. 

WILLIAM  H.  MITCHELL. 

JAVAN  M.  RUSSELL. 

DEWITT  B.  THOMPSON. 

FRANK  B.  UPHAM. 

CATHERINE  A.  GARDNER. 

1886 

GEORGE  C.  BOSWELL. 
WALTER  P.  BUCK. 
CLINTON  DEW.  BURDICK. 
JOHN  C.  CLARK. 
HERBERT  E.  DRAKE. 
EDGAR  A.  EMENS. 
WILLIAM  B.  GWINNELL. 
CHARLES  SCOTT. 
EDWARD  C.  STROUT. 
LILLIE  B.  MATHEWSON. 


BUELL  O.  CAMPBELL. 

JLYMAN  G.  HORTON. 


140 


APPENDIX 


JJOHN    McMURRAY. 

ALBERT  W.  THAYER. 

HERBERT  WELCH. 

ROBERT  L.  ZINK. 

JESSIE  I.  INGLIS  (Mrs.  Eason) 

JANE  VAN  VLECK. 

1888 

HARRY  H.  BEATTYS. 
WILLIAM  M.  CASSIDY. 
t  FREDERIC  D.  FULLER. 
CHARLES  M.  GRIFFITH. 
FREDERICK  H.  L.  HAMMOND. 
HARRY  K.  MUNROE. 
MARCUS  WHITE. 


ARTHUR  N.  BURKE. 
JDALE  D.  BUTLER. 
HENRY  H.  CHATFIELD. 
SEWARD  V.  COFFIN. 
FREDERICK  M.  DAVENPORT. 
JOHN  E.  LOVELAND. 
GEORGE  E.  MANCHESTER. 
ROWLAND  MILES. 
WILLARD  I.  WARRINER. 

JWALTER  W.   WlNANS. 

NORTHAM  WRIGHT. 

1890 

FRANCIS  A.  BAGNALL. 
ROBERT  J.  BEACH. 
R.  WATSON  COOPER. 
EDGAR  S.  FERNALD. 
FREDERICK  W.  HANNAN. 
UOHN  R.  HENSHAW. 
LYON  L.  NORTON. 
EDWIN  S.  TASKER. 
WILSON  W.  THOMPSON. 
ANNA  H.  ANDREWS. 


LILLIE  B.  CONN  (Mrs.  Kuhns), 
I  NETTIE  L.  WHITNEY. 

1891 

WATERS  B.  DAY. 
FRANK  P.  FOGG. 
ALBERT  E.  HANCOCK. 
LUDWIG  A.  LANGE. 
EUGENE  A.  NOBLE. 
GEORGE  L.  PLIMPTON. 
ARTHUR  W.  SMITH. 
I  CHARLES  B.  YOUNG. 

1892 

JCHARLES  D.  BURNES. 

DAVID  J.  CARLOUGH. 
ALBERT  L.  CROWELL. 
GEORGE  W.  DAVISON. 
HOWARD  D.  GORDON. 
RALPH  M.  GRANT. 
WILLIAM  H.  HALL. 
LOVELL  J.  HONISS. 
NELSON  C.  HUBBARD. 
DUNCAN  S.  JOHNSON. 
WILLIAM  H.  KIDD. 
JOHN  S.  PULLMAN. 
HEBER  I.  THAYER. 
WILLIAM  D.  TUCKEY. 

1893 

GEORGE  H.  BLAKESLEE. 
I  BERNARD  W.  BUTLER. 
WILLIAM  E.  FAIRBANK. 
CHARLES  G.  GOODRICH. 
HERVEY  HOWARD. 
GEORGE  R.  MUNROE. 
CHARLES  E.  NORTH. 
ROBERT  C.  PARKER. 
WALTER  E.  RUSSELL. 
EDWIN  O.  SMITH. 


APPENDIX 


141 


HARRY  A.  THOMPSON*. 
ASHLEY  H.  THORNDIKE. 
MATTIE  L.  HILLS. 

1894 

J.  GORDON  BALDWIN. 
WILLIAM  B.  DAVIS. 
WILLIAM  M.  ESTEN. 
ABRAHAM  H.  ESPENSHADE. 
ROBERT  M.  FRENCH. 
FREDRIC  W.  FROST. 
LEWIS  E.  GORDON. 
ARTHUR  L.  HOWE. 
WILLIAM  M.  NEWTON. 
FREDERICK  H.  SAWYER. 
EDWARD  L.  STEELE. 
EDWIN  C.  TREAT. 
HENRY  R.  VAN  DEUSEN. 
SUSIE  J.  MANTLE  (Mrs.  Shel 

don). 
LIZZIE  C.  RICE  (Mrs.  Barnes) 

1895 
EDWARD  L.  M.  BARNES. 

JjAMES  H.  BUNCE. 

CLIFFORD  P.  CLARK. 

EDWARD  F.  COFFIN. 
JWiLLiAM  J.  HAMPTON. 

HENRY  I.  HARRIMAN. 

FRANKLIN  T.  KURT. 

ALBERT  B.  MEREDITH. 

WARREN  R.  NEFF. 

ARTHUR  C.  POMEROY. 
JROBERT  N.  SMITH. 

HOWARD  A.  SUTTON. 

JOSEPH  K.  VAN  DENBURG. 

JOHN  G.  WALSH. 

CLAUDE  L.  WILSON. 

SARAH     B.    TUCKER     (Mrs. 
Kurt). 


1896 

ALBERT  F.  BLAKESLEE. 
WILLIAM  B.  CASS. 
JASON  F.  CHASE. 
OLIN  W.  HILL. 
IRVING  E.  MANCHESTER. 
GEORGE  W.  NORTON. 
I  CARL  R.  PECK. 
VERNON  B.  SWETT. 
WILLIAM  B.  TOWER. 
HENRY  D.  TRINKAUS. 
MAY  S.  FINNEY  (Mrs.  Wil- 

ford). 
CHRISTINE  K.  GLOVER  (Mrs. 

Frost). 
EDITH  R.  GRAVES  (Mrs.  Har- 

riman). 

| SUSAN  S.  HUBBELL. 
LILLIAN  G.  INGLIS  (Mrs.  Lar- 

rabee). 
MARGARET  N.WILLIAMS  (Mrs. 

Belden). 

1897 

HARRY  A.  BATCHELDER. 
MANNING  B.  BENNETT. 
R.  NELSON  BENNETT. 
N.  EVAN  DAVIS. 
WILLIAM  G.  GIFFIN. 
WHITNEY  M.  HUBBARD. 
IRVILLE  C.  LECOMPTE. 
THOMAS  R.  MOORE. 
STEPHEN  A.  NORTON. 
WILLIAM  B.  PRUNER. 
ALVENZA  I.  SMITH. 
WILLIAM  E.  D.  STONE. 
LEON  K.  WILLMAN. 
MYRON  B.  YAW. 
LIZZIE    E.    DUFFORD     (Mrs. 
Moyle). 


142 


APPENDIX 


CORNELIA  H.  STONE. 
CARRIE  M.  YALE. 

1898 
J CHARLES  E.  BENEDICT. 

FRED  I.  BROWN. 

MORTIMER  H.  CAMP. 

ALFRED  T.  DAVISON. 

JOHN  H.  FAIRCHILD. 

EBEN  JACKSON. 

FREDERICK  A.  JOHNSTON. 

EDWARD  L.  MONTGOMERY. 

SAMUEL  A.  MOYLE. 

ADOLPHUS  S.  NORTH. 

GEORGE  W.  OSMUN. 
J  ERNEST  O.  POWERS. 

WILBUR  S.  WEEKS. 

RALPH  D.  WHITING. 

HATTIE  B.  HALL  (Mrs.  Legg) 

ELEANOR  NEWELL. 

1899 

MARCELLUS  C.  AVERY. 

EDWARD  S.  BELDEN. 

WILLIAM  C.  DARBY. 

BERTRAM  F.  DODD. 
J  LOUIS  GlLDERSLEEVE. 

ARTHUR  GOODRICH. 

JAMES  G.  GOODWIN. 

CHARLES  A.  HADLEY. 

ROBERT  E.  HARNED. 

EDWIN  W.  KEMMERER. 

ALBERT  E.  LEGG. 

WARD  W.  PICKARD. 

CHARLES  H.  RAYMOND. 
J  CHARLES  F.  ROCKWELL. 

WARREN  F.  SHELDON. 

HARRY  R.  STONE. 

RALPH  C.  STONE. 

OLIVER  E.  YALE. 

JULIA  BRAZOS. 


MARGARET  E.  JONES. 
MARY  E.   WILCOXSON    (Mrs. 
Franklin). 

1900 

JOHN  R.  BOWMAN. 
JWILLARD  E.  BROWN. 
HORACE  D.  BYRNES. 
HENRY  L.  DAVIS. 
LEROY  A.  HOWLAND. 
HENRY  A.  INGRAHAM. 
ROBERT  E.  NIVISON. 
ISAAC  C.  SUTTON. 
EMORY  H.  WESTLAKE, 
ANNIE    G.    BIRDSEY    (Mrs. 

Steele). 

ALICE  BRIGHAM. 
GRACE  L.  FOOTE. 
GRACE  M.  HULSE  (Mrs. 

Howell). 
PERCIE  J.  SMITH. 

1901 

WILLIAM  E.  ADAMS. 

WALTER  M.  ANDERSON. 

BURTON  H.  CAMP. 

THOMAS  S.  CLINE. 

JOHN  A.  DECKER,  JR. 
|  HARRY  C.  LANE. 
|  HENRY  MEDD. 

ROBERT  J.  MERRIAM. 

WILLIAM  P.  OGDEN. 

RICHARD  G.  POVEY. 

SUSAN     M.     ADAMS     (Mrs. 
Wetherby). 

MABELLE  W.  BARNES. 

CHRISTABEL   M.   COE    (Mrs. 
Merrett). 

MAY  T.  PALMER. 

J.  MYRA  WILCOX. 


APPENDIX 


M3 


1902 

ROBERT  A.  ANDERSON. 
MARSHALL  BEVIN. 
W.  HARRY  CLEMONS. 
WEBB  G.  COOPER. 
JAMES  A.  CORSCADEN. 
SAMUEL  F.  CROWELL. 
RALPH  S.  CUSHMAN. 
JLouis  N.  DENNISTON. 
GEORGE  W.  HARPER,  JR. 
OLIN  F.  HERRICK. 
ERNEST  M.  LIBBY. 
CLIFFORD  D.  MEEKER. 
CARL  S.  NEUMANN. 
CLARENCE  L.  NEWTON. 
WILBER  E.  NEWTON. 
HARRIE  A.  PRATT. 
CARL  F.  PRICE. 
GEORGE  D.  RYDER. 
ELDORA  J.  BIRCH. 
ILGA  F.  R.  HARVEY. 

1903 

IRVING  M.  ANDERSON. 
Z.  PLATT  BENNETT. 
JAMES  G.  BERRIEN. 
WILLIAM  P.  CALDER. 
CLARENCE  F.  CORNER. 
MILTON  W.  DAVENPORT. 
HARRY  P.  DAY. 
MAX  F.  HOWLAND. 
WILLIAM  S.  JACKSON. 
JOHN  W.  LANGDALE. 
FLOYD  S.  LEACH. 
CARL  S.  MUELLER. 
RALPH  NORTON. 
WALLACE  L.  ROOT. 
HERBERT  B.  SHONK. 
HARRY  H.  SMITH. 


VIVIAN    E.    GLADWIN    (Mrs. 

Campbell). 
MINNIE     C.     RIGBY     (Mrs. 

Payne). 

1904 

ROLAND  J.  BUNTEN. 

MYRON  C.  CRAMER. 

Louis  DE  V.  DAY. 

GERALD  B.  DEMAREST. 

FRANK  P.  FLETCHER. 

CHARLES  H.  GARRISON. 

R.  WALLACE  GILLESPIE. 

KENNETH  M.  GOODE. 
J  HENRY  C.  GUERNSEY. 
J  CLARENCE  B.  GUY. 

ROY  S.  Hum 

RALPH  W.  KEELER. 

EDGAR  MACNAUGHTEN. 
J  CHARLES  H.  NORTH  AM. 
j  FREDERICK  L.  PHELPS. 

HAROLD  B.  RAYMOND. 

SAMUEL  T.  REYNOLDS. 

STETSON  K.  RYAN. 

HAROLD  E.  WILSON. 

WATSON  WOODRUFF. 

HELEN  V.  BRANSFIELD. 

MARGUERITE     M.    VAN     BEN- 
SCHOTEN. 

1905 

A.  REYNOLDS  BISHOP. 
MINN  S.  CORNELL,  JR. 
NATHAN  H.  FAIRCHILD. 
ALLAN  FERGUSON. 
HOWARD  B.  FIELD. 
STEWART  F.  HANCOCK. 
HOWARD  E.  A.  JONES. 
RALPH  H.  Mix. 
S.  OLNEY. 
HORACE  J.  RICE. 


144 


APPENDIX 


CLARENCE  H.  TRYON. 
JAMES  M.  YARD. 
RUTH  B.  BONFOEY. 
CLARA  F.  SYKES. 

1906 

WILLIAM  E.  BELL. 
GEORGE  I.  BODINE,  JR. 
ARTHUR  K.  DEARBORN. 
LESTER  F.  DEMING. 
WARD  P.  GAMMONS. 
GEORGE  H.  HAMILTON. 
CLARENCE  E.  HANCOCK. 
GEORGE  E.  HEATH,  JR. 
WILLIAM  A.  JOHNSTON. 
ELLIS  H.  MARTIN. 
HAROLD  C.  MARTIN. 
WILLIAM  G.  MURPHY,  JR. 
OLIVER  T.  NOON. 
WILLIAM  N.  PHILLIPS. 
JOSHUA  L.  ROBINS. 
GUY  W.  ROGERS. 
I  ALEXANDER  C.  STEVENS. 

j  REGINALD  H.  STOW. 

FRANK  H.  SYRETT. 
FREDERICK  F.  VOORHEES. 
CLIFFORD  LE  G.  WAITE. 
LESTER  R.  WEEKS. 
FREDERICK  W.  WRIGHT. 
MARGARET  E.  DONAHOE. 
HELEN  K.  FLETCHER. 
KATHERINE  F.  LUCEY. 
EDITH  W.  SAY. 
ANNA  M.  VANDERBROUK. 
ELLA  P.  WARNER. 
FLORENCE  WINTER. 

1907 

HAROLD  D.  ALLEN. 
HILAND  G.  BATCHELLER. 


ADOLPH  B.  BENSON. 

FRANK  A.  BERRY. 

RALPH  S.  CARPENTER. 

CARL  W.  CLARK. 
I  HAROLD  D.  CLARK. 

JOHN  S.  CLARKE. 

EDWIN  A.  FIELD. 

THOMAS  B.  GIBB. 

ARTHUR  B.  HALEY. 

ARTHUR  P.  HICKCOX. 

HAROLD  M.  HORTON. 

GEORGE  H.  INGRAHAM. 

EDWARD  A.  JENNINGS. 

HARRY  W.  LAIDLER. 

EARLE  L.  LEGG. 

CLARENCE  P.   MCCLELLAND. 

OLIN  F.  MCCORMICK. 

GEORGE  L.  MYLCHREEST. 
J  CLARENCE  R.  NEWTON. 

CHARLES  J.  PETERSON. 

HOWARD  A.  SECKERSON. 
t  EDGAR  STORMS,  JR. 

DANIEL  WILKINS. 

ALICE  M.  BOCK. 

ELIZABETH  P.  BRANSFIELD. 

ELIZABETH  D.  CLARK. 

FRANCES  T.  NEJAKO. 

1908 

LEWIS  ALLEN,  JR. 
KENNETH  N.  ATKINS. 
CLARENCE  E.  CARTER. 
ORLIFF  VAN  H.  CHASE. 
CHARLES  F.  CLEAVELAND,  JR. 
HAROLD  J.  CONN. 
JOHN  C.  DAY. 
HARRY  A.  DRESSER. 
CHARLES  F.  EDSALL. 
CHARLES  E.  GRAVES. 
WALTER  R.  HICK. 


APPENDIX 


145 


GEORGE  S.  HULL. 
ERNEST  A.  INGLIS. 
WALTER  R.  MITCHELL. 
LANSING  D.  ODELL. 
HERBERT  P.  PATTERSON. 
ARTHUR  G.  H.  POWER. 
HAROLD  G.  ROGERS. 
LEONARD  O.  RYAN. 
LEONARD  J.  SELDEN. 
LEWIS  K.  SMITH. 
I  FRANK  K.  SNYDER. 
FREDERIC  STEWART. 
GILBERT  H.  THIRKIELD. 
GEORGE  B.  TOMPKINS. 
JOHN  B.  VAN  HORN. 
WILLIAM  C.  WHITE. 
GEORGE  W.  WRISTON. 
UNADE  BARNES  (Mrs.  Seeker- 
son). 

1909 

ERNEST  F.  AMY. 
RAIMOND  D.  BAIRD. 
PERCY  H.  BAKER. 
WILLIAM  R.  BARBOUR. 
STANLEY  G.  BARKER. 
FRISBIE  J.  BATES. 
WALTER  P.  BLISS. 
RAYMOND  H.  BREWER. 
CHARLES  P.  CANHAM. 
FRANK  E.  CARRUTH. 
ROY  B.  CHAMBERLIN. 
HERBERT  L.  CONNELLY. 
JAMES  F.  COWAN. 
CLARENCE  M.  DAY. 
ROLLIN  C.  DEAN. 


EDMUND  DOREMUS. 

CARLL  W.  DOXSEE. 

JOHN  G.  FREY. 

PHILIP  L.  GIVEN. 

FREDERIC  S.  GORHAM. 

HORACE  S.  GRIPPING. 

WILLIAM  M.  GRIGSON. 

HAROLD  S.  GUY. 

MAURICE  A.  HAMMOND. 

JOHN  T.  HANCOCK. 

OSCAR  F.  HEDENBURG. 

FRANK  L.  HEWITT. 

WILLIAM  E.  LEIGHTON. 

WALDO  B.  MACLEAN. 

JOHN  J.  MARRINAN. 

FREDERIC  L.  MAXIM. 

ARTHUR  H.  MIDDLEMASS. 

DAVID  DEW.  MILLER. 

ERIC  McC.  NORTH. 
^RICHARD  D.  NORTHROP. 

JOHN  G.  PAINE. 

CHESTER  A.  RICH. 

GEORGE  W.  ROBERTS. 
J  FREDERICK  F.  ROCKWELL. 

FRANK  A.  SHAILER. 

HENRY  R.  SKEEL. 

WILLIS  M.  TATE. 

WILLIAM  E.  TRAXLER. 

WILLIAM  R.  WILLIAMSON. 

STANLEY  D.  WILSON. 

WlLHELM    A.   WlNTTER. 

HARVEY  A.  WOOSTER. 
ETHEL  C.  BURR. 
JESSIE  A.  JOHNSON. 
ROSA  M.  PALLADINO. 
CARRIE  B.  SPAFARD. 


146  APPENDIX 

Honorary  Alumni 

WILLIAM  FRANKLIN  ANDERSON. 

CHAUNCEY  BUNCE  BREWSTER. 

HENRY  ANSON  BUTTZ. 

ABIRAM  CHAMBERLAIN. 

OWEN  VINCENT  COFFIN. 

DANIEL  AYRES  GOODSELL. 

ARTHUR  TWINING  HADLEY. 

WILLIAM  EDWARDS  HUNTINGTON. 

PHINEAS  CHAPMAN  LOUNSBURY. 

WALLACE  MACMULLEN. 

SILAS  ARNOLD  ROBINSON. 

HENRY  WADE  ROGERS. 

FRANK  KNIGHT  SANDERS. 

CHARLES  MACAULAY  STUART. 

DAVID  HOWARD  TRIBOU. 

ROLLIN  SIMMONS  WOODRUFF. 

FRANK  BENTLEY  WEEKS. 

Graduates  of  Other  Colleges  Who  Have  Received  the  Master's 
Degree  at  Wesleyam 

LUCIA  WASHBURN  HAZEN  (MRS.  WEBSTER). 
MAYNARD  THOMPSON  HAZEN. 

Former  Members  of  the  Faculty  (not  Graduates  of  Wesley  an} 

FRANCIS  GANG  BENEDICT. 
ISAIAH  BOWMAN. 
FRANK  SARGENT  HOFFMAN. 
ELIAS  HERSHEY  SNEATH. 
RALPH  CLEWELL  SUPER. 


TRUSTEES  AND  FACULTY  OF 
WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY 


JBoarb  of  {Trustee* 

[Those  marked  J  were  not  present  at  the  Instajlation.] 

HENRY  CRUISE  MURPHY  INGRAHAM,  LL.D.,  President. 

REV.  DAVID  GEORGE  DOWNEY,  D.D.,  Secretary. 

CLINTON  DE\VITT  BURDICK,  M.A.,  Treasurer. 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

TERM  EXPIRES  OCTOBER  1.  1910 
*  REV.  BP.  CYRUS  DAVID  Foss,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

REV.  JOSEPH  ELIJAH  KING,  Ph.D.,  D.D. 

REV.  WILLIAM  VALENTINE  KELLEY,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

J  HON.  WATSON  CARVOSSO  SQUIRE,  B.A. 

ALBERT  RANDOLPH  CRITTENDEN. 

JOHN  GRIBBEL. 

J  JAMES  GARDNER  SHEPHERD. 

§  STEPHEN  HENRY  OLIN,  LL.D. 

§  CHARLES  SCOTT,  M.A. 

f  REV.  ANDREW  JACKSON  COULTAS,  JR.,  D.D. 

J  t  REV.  WILLIAM  JOHN  CHAPMAN,  M.A. 

TERM  EXPIRES  OCTOBER  1.  1911 
HON.  DAVID  WARD  NORTHROP,  M.A. 

CEPHAS  BRAINERD  ROGERS. 

J  HON.  JOHN  EMORY  ANDRUS,  B.A. 

J  HENRY  HOBART  BENEDICT. 

I  CHARLES  GIBSON. 

CLINTON  DEWITT  BURDICK,  M.A. 

REV.  WILLIAM  INGRAHAM  HAVEN,  D.D. 


150  APPENDIX 

§  HON.  GEORGE  GREENWOOD  REYNOLDS,  LL.D. 

§  GEORGE  DAVIS  BEATTYS,  M.A. 
t  f  REV.  ABRAHAM  JOHN  PALMER,  D.D. 
J  f  REV.  EDMUND  MEAD  MILLS,  Ph.D.,  D.D. 

TERM  EXPIRES  OCTOBER  I.   1912 
REV.  JAMES  MONROE  BUCKLEY,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

J  FRANK  SMITH  JONES. 
HENRY  CRUISE  MURPHY  INGRAHAM,  LL.D. 

JAMES  NOEL  BROWN. 

I  SAMUEL  WOOD  BOWNE. 

HON.  WESLEY  ULYSSES  PEARNE,  B.A. 

§  HON.  DARIUS  BAKER,  LL.D. 
§  REV.  DAVID  GEORGE  DOWNEY,  D.D. 

I  f  WILLIAM  PERRY  BILLINGS. 

I  f  REV.  WARREN  LANNING  HOAGLAND,  D.D. 

|  f  REV.  CHARLES  EDWARD  DAVIS,  D.D. 

TERM  EXPIRES  OCTOBER  1,   1913 

*  GEORGE  SLOCUM  BENNETT,  M.A. 

CHARLES  LEE  ROCKWELL. 

REV.  AZEL  WASHBURN  HAZEN,  D.D., 

WILLIAM  EDWIN  SESSIONS. 

1  JOHN  THOMAS  PORTER. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  BURROWS. 

§  HON.  MARTIN  AUGUSTINE  KNAPP,  LL.D. 

I  §  THEODORE  E.  HANCOCK,  LL.D. 
f  REV.  WILLIAM  MONROE  NEWTON,  B.A. 
|  f  REV.  ALBERT  PEARNE  PALMER,  M.A. 


APPENDIX  151 

TERM  EXPIRES  OCTOBER  I.   1914 

J  *  REV.  CHARLES  HENRY  BUCK,  D.D. 

HON.  PHINEAS  CHAPMAN  LOUNSBURY,  LL.D. 

GEORGE  SILAS  COLEMAN,  LL.D. 

JOHN  EDGAR  LEAYCRAFT. 

J  CYRUS  DANIEL  JONES. 

§  WEBSTER  ROGERS  WALKLEY,  D.C.L. 

§  FREDERIC  WILCOX  CLARKE,  B.A. 

f  REV.  FRANK  MASON  NORTH,  D.D. 

f  REV.  DAVID  HOWARD  TRIBOU,  D.D. 

f  REV.  HOWARD  ABBOTT  CLIFFORD,  M.A. 

f  REV.  EDWIN  SLOAN  TASKER,  M.A. 


*  Died  after  the  date  of  the  Installation. 

Note. — Trustees  whose  names  are  marked  with  a  §  were  elected  by  the 
alumni;  those  whose  names  are  marked  with  a  t  were  elected  by  the 
patronizing  conferences ;  all  others  were  elected  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

The  term  of  office  is  five  years,  the  official  year  beginning  on  the  first 
day  of  October  following  election. 


152  APPENDIX 

rfacultp 

WILLIAM  ARNOLD  SHANKLIN,  L.H.D.,  LL.D., 

PRESIDENT. 
Upon  the  A.  V.  Stout  Foundation. 

JOHN  MONROE  VAN  VLECK,  LL.D., 
Fisk  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astronomy,  Emeritus. 

WILLIAM  NORTH  RICE,  Ph.D.,  LL.D., 

G.  I.  Seney  Professor  of  Geology. 

CALEB  THOMAS  WINCHESTER,  L.H.D., 
Olin  Professor  of  English  Literature. 

BRADFORD  PAUL  RAYMOND,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
Waite  Professor  of  Ethics  and  Biblical  Literature,  Emeritus. 

MORRIS  BARKER  CRAWFORD,  M.A., 
Foss  Professor  of  Physics. 

HERBERT  WILLIAM  CONN,  Ph.D., 

Daniel  Ayres  Professor  of  Biology. 

ANDREW  CAMPBELL  ARMSTRONG,  Ph.D., 
William  Griffin  Professor  of  Philosophy. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  MEAD,  Ph.D., 
Professor  of  the  English  Language. 

KARL  POMEROY  HARRINGTON,  M.A., 
Robert  Rich  Professor  of  the  Latin  Language  and  Literature. 

WILLIAM  JOHN  JAMES,  M.A., 

Librarian. 

FRANK  WALTER  NICOLSON,  M.A., 
Secretary  of  the  Faculty,  and  Associate  Professor  of  Latin. 

WALTER  PARKE  BRADLEY,  Ph.D., 
E.  B.  Nye  Professor  of  Chemistry. 

OSCAR  KUHNS,  L.H.D., 
Hollis  Professor  of  Romance  Languages. 


APPENDIX  153 

WILLARD  CLARK  FISHER,  B.A., 
Professor  of  Economics  and  Social  Science. 

WILLIAM  ARTHUR  HEIDEL,  Ph.D., 
Jane  A.  Seney  Professor  of  the  Greek  Language  and  Literature. 

RAYMOND  DODGE,  Ph.D., 
J.  W.  Beach  Professor  of  Psychology. 

WALTER  GUYTON  CADY,  Ph.D., 
Charlotte  Augusta  Ayres  Professor  of  Physics. 

ROBERT  HERNDON  FIFE,  JR.,  Ph.D., 
Marcus  L.  Taft  Professor  of  the  German  Language  and  Literature    . 

GEORGE  MATTHEW  DUTCHER,  Ph.D., 
Hedding  Professor  of  History. 

JOSEPH  WILLIAM  HEWITT,  Ph.D., 
Associate  Professor  of  Latin  and  Greek. 

LEROY  ALBERT  ROWLAND,  Ph.D., 
Associate  Professor  of  Mathematics. 

BURTON  HOWARD  CAMP,  M.A., 
Associate  Professor  of  Mathematics. 

CLARK  SMITH  BEARDSLEE,  D.D., 
Lecturer  in  Ethics. 

ARTHUR  LINCOLN  GILLETT,  D.D., 
Lecturer  in  Evidences  of  Christianity. 

HENRY  BARRETT  LEARNED,  Ph.D., 
Lecturer  in  History. 

JOHN  WESLEY  WETZEL,  Ph.B., 
Instructor  in  Public  Speaking. 

JOHN  WILLIAM  TURRENTINE,  Ph.D., 
Instructor  in   Chemistry. 

RAEMER  REX  RENSHAW,  Ph.D., 

Instructor  in  Chemistry. 


154  APPENDIX 

Louis  BLISS  GILLET,  B.A., 

Instructor  in  English. 

DAVID  DAY  WHITNEY,  Ph.D., 
Instructor  in  Biology. 

GILBERT  HAVEN  CADY,  B.A., 
Instructor  in  Physical  Geography. 

PAUL  HOLROYD  CURTS,  Ph.D., 
Instructor  in  German. 

ALEXANDER  CHILSON  STEVENS,  M.E., 
Instructor  in  Descriptive  Geometry,  and  Assistant  in  Physics. 

CHARLES  EDWARD  GRAVES,  B.A., 
Instructor  in  Romance  Languages. 


*  SAMUEL  WARD  LOPER,  M.A., 
Curator  of  the  Museum. 

HOWARD  ROLAND  REITER,  M.A., 
Director  of  the  Gymnasium. 

MARGUERITE  MORGAN  VAN  BENSCHOTEN,  B.A. 
Assistant  Librarian. 

CHARLES  LEWIS  BRIGHTMAN,  M.A., 
Assistant  in  Physics. 

OSCAR  FRED  HEDENBURG,  B.A., 
Assistant  in   Chemistry. 

HARVEY  ALDEN  WOOSTER,  B.A., 
Assistant  in  Psychology. 

MARY  ABBIE  RICHARDSON, 
Assistant  in  the  Library. 

JULIA  BRAZOS,  Ph.B., 
Dean  of  Women. 


*  Deceased. 


